| Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1805 - 350 pages
...given vent to his absurd resentment, two bridges were ordered to be built in the place of the former ; one for the army to pass over, and the other for the' baggage and the beasts of burthen. The workmen, now warned by the fate of their predecessors, undertook to give... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1812 - 454 pages
...given vent to his absurd resentment, two bridges were ordered to be built in the place of the former, one for the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage and the beasts of burthen. The workmen, now warned by the fate of their predecessors, undertook to give... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1818 - 346 pages
...giving vent to his absurd resentment, two bridges were ordered to be built in the place of the former; one for the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage and beasts of burden. The workmen, now warned by the fate of their predecessors, undertook to give their labors greater stability... | |
| Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1820 - 386 pages
...answerable for events which do not in the least depend upon the power of man, he ordered all those persons to have their heads struck off, that had been...the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage i.nd beasts of burden. He appointed workmen more able an. i expert than the former, who went about... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 422 pages
...given vent to his absurd resentment, two bridges were ordered to be built in the place of the former, one for the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage and the beasts of burthen. The workmen, now warned by the fate of their predecessors, undertook to give... | |
| Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...given vent to his absurd resentment, two bridges were ordered to be built in the place of the former ; one for the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage and the beasts of burden. The workmen, now warned by .the fate of their predecessors, undertook to give... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1828 - 328 pages
...given vent to his absurd resentment, two bridges were ordered to be built in the place of the former; one for the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage anci beasts of burden. The workmen, now warned by the fate of their predecessors, undertook to give... | |
| Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1830 - 480 pages
...all thy billows and resistance." The extravagance of this prince did not stop here ; but making tLe undertakers of the work answerable for events, which...workmen more able and expert than the former, who constructed it in the following manner : they placed three hundred and sixty vessels across the strait,... | |
| John Lauris Blake - Readers - 1833 - 286 pages
...given vent to his absurd resentment, two bridges were ordered to be built in the place of the former, one for the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage and beasts of burden. The workmen, now warned by the fate of their predecessors, undertook to give their labors greater stability.... | |
| Joseph Guy (of Bristol.) - 1836 - 340 pages
...their master will find means to pass its waters in spite of its billows and resistance. Xerxes then commanded two other bridges to be built, — one for...and the other for the baggage and beasts of burden. When the work was completed Xerxes poured out libations into the sea, and turning his face towards... | |
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