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This will take a long time, but many pictures may be found in advertising folders of steamship lines and tourist agencies. How the Graeco-Roman world was built up: 1. The Greeks drive back the Persians. The Greeks settle in many places on the shores of the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Alexander conquers the countries about the eastern Mediterranean.
The Athenians gain great advantages over the Spartans at Sphacteria, and by occupying Cythera; but they suffer a severe defeat in Boeotia, and the Spartan general Brasidas, leads an expedition to the Thracian coasts, and conquers many of the most valuable Athenian possessions in those regions.
"I have known scores and hundreds of people for whom there would have been a chance in the last resurrection if their lives had been taken and their blood spilled upon the ground as a smoking incense to the Almighty, but who are now angels to the devil, until our elder brother, Jesus Christ, raises them up, and conquers death, hell, and the grave."
He supposed that all men are born equally good, but that the temptations of the world at length destroy the original rectitude. The "superior man," who next to the "sage" holds the highest place in the Confucian humanity, conquers the evil in the world, though subject to infirmities; his acts are guided by the laws of propriety, and are marked by strict sincerity.
Oliver Cromwell lord-protector of England. Restoration of the Stuarts to the English throne. Louis XIV. takes the administration of affairs in France into his own hands. Louis XVI. makes war in Spain, and conquers a large part of the Spanish Netherlands.
In war, Defoe says, repeating a favourite axiom of his, "it is not the longest sword but the longest purse that conquers," and if the French get the Spanish crown, they get the richest trade in the world into their hands. The French would prove better husbands of the wealth of Mexico and Peru than the Spaniards.
So I suppose I may say that everything has turned out well." "Yes, you may, and now I've found a subject, Pelle! I'm not going to hunt about blindly in the dark; I'm going to write a great work now." "I congratulate you! What will it be about? Is it to be the work on the sun?" "Yes, both about the sun and about him who conquers. It's to be a book about you, Pelle!" "About me?" exclaimed Pelle.
Death of Ferdinand of Spain; he is succeeded by his grandson Charles, afterwards the Emperor Charles V. Dispute between Luther and Tetzel respecting the sale of indulgences, which is the immediate cause of the Reformation. Charles V. is elected Emperor of Germany. Cortez conquers Mexico. Francis I. of France defeated and taken prisoner by the imperial army at Pavia.
Down fell the knife, but when I felt about for the rat which I had expected to have been transfixed, it had gone. I tried again, but once more the rat escaped me. I began to fear that the creatures would discover my device, and take some other route when they wished to emerge from their hiding-places. Still I knew that perseverance conquers all difficulties.
Which I permit myself to translate into these two lines: "The German conquers every foe, Except his thirst, that lays him low." Even if the German army were not necessary as a policeman, it could not be spared as a physician by the German people. It is to be forever kept in mind that the German is brought up on rules; the American and the Englishman on emergencies.
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