Herodotus, Том 4L. Hansard & Sons, 1812 |
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Страница 198 - But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up : for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand : and this shall be a sign unto us. And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
Страница 31 - Who can think one thing, and another tell, My soul detests him as the gates of hell : — siitog that is, I hate him as death, or I hate him mortally.