We hasten to congratulate the inhabitants of this polite metropolis on what may be styled a discovery of the most splendid and useful nature.
Many years before, at the time when Joab was besieging Rabbath, the metropolis of the Ammonites, David had gone out on the roof of his house in Zion in the cool of the evening.
He it is after whom the land and the oldest metropolis is named, whose representatives the oldest princes of Assyria appear to have called themselves.
Solomon felt it incumbent on him to secure his land, and not merely to adorn the metropolis by splendid buildings, but to make it inaccessible to attack.
Shechem, the old metropolis of the tribe of Ephraim, was the chief city of this league.
The metropolisof the Assyrians was known to the Greeks as Ninus; in the inscriptions of the Assyrian kings it is called Ninua.
The defensive works which David had added to the old fortifications of the metropolis he enlarged and extended.
David's new metropolis was thus at the same time raised to be the central point of the national worship, and in the fullest sense the metropolis of the land.
Ahithophel considered the success which had been obtained, the rebellion which spread through the whole country on this side of the Jordan, and the possession of the strong metropolis and the palace without a blow, insufficient and indecisive.
This place he took and fortified, and was now enabled to press heavily on the metropolis of Judah, by checking their trade and cutting off their supplies.
Shechem, the ancient metropolis of the tribe of Ephraim, the place at which the crown was transferred to Jeroboam, was the residence of the new king.
When Jerusalem was no longer the chief metropolis of the kingdom, the temple there could not any longer be the place of worship for all the tribes.
The king belonged to this tribe; the temple and metropolis were in its territory.
There was a large crowd at the Denver depot to see us off, and we left the Colorado metropolis with many regrets, so pleasant had been our visit there.
Lords and ladies were largely in evidence among the spectators wherever we played and among our own countrymen residing in the British metropolis we were the lions of the day.
He was heir-apparent when first born, but had jus in re now when entering the metropolis of his kingdom, he took possession.
Some of the families, before the revocation, as early as the year 1625, reached the spot where the great metropolis now stands, then a Dutch settlement.
As the student and the clerk were about to set out on their way to the metropolis his friend took him apart.
In the metropolis itself the buildings are numerous and of great size.
This friend had been his most intimate companion when he first became a student, but being older had finished his studies sooner, and had left the metropolis before the student’s misfortune.
When they came to the metropolis the clerk brought many of his acquaintances to see the student.
Many of the inhabitants of the metropolis whose lives were most strenuous suddenly succumbed.
I don’t see why you should say it was pleasant for him to move towards the metropolis when he does not do so.
The only reason you have for supposing that the being is attracted towards the metropolis is that he does move towards the metropolis.
It seemed best to go to the metropolis and talk with the wisest and most learned there.
The supposed being,” he answered, “while he is attracted to themetropolis in accordance with the general law, may yet have some stronger inducement at the time to move away from the metropolis.
In their heat, the disputants have forgot that the ample space of a metropoliscovers and annihilates the far greater part of the controversy.
Of these nations, the Franks alone were qualified to observe in their turn, and to describe, the metropolis of the East.
A fleet of Saracens from the African coast presumed to enter the mouth of the Tyber, and to approach a city which even yet, in her fallen state, was revered as the metropolis of the Christian world.
After the vith century, it became an episcopal see, and at length the metropolisof the new Galatia, (Carol.
Constantine, his eldest son, had been stationed with forty thousand men at Caesarea, the civil metropolis of the three provinces of Palestine.
If the sectaries of the metropolis were soon mingled with the promiscuous mass, those of the country struck a deep root in a foreign soil.
But the foundery work at Pittsburg is more nearly allied to the heavy, rough works of the Welsh coal metropolis than to the finish and polish of Birmingham.
All with us that are rich and aristocratic and luxurious live in the country, frequenting the metropolis for only a portion of the year.
It is the great hog metropolis of the Western States; but Cincinnati has not grown with the rapidity of other towns.
But, turning from the personal and domestic life of the illustrious leader, he spoke of the methods which Washington adopted to win back the metropolis of New England from the British.
One of his first acts, was to make Salem, instead of Boston, the metropolis of Massachusetts, by summoning the General Court to meet there.
His observations on life and manners in the metropolis of New England, had about them the same smack of fishy sagacity, plainly declaring from what source his philosophy had been derived.
The canal, it was urged, was not an experiment; it had been tested and not found wanting; already the great achievement of De Witt Clinton in completing the Erie Canal had made New York City the metropolis of the western world.
The Erie had its own approach to New York City, but the New York Central was connected with the metropolis only by the river and the two independent roads--the Harlem Railroad and the Hudson River Railroad.
Would that we had even one reason to suppose that the metropolis had been noisier than usual on this morning!
All were well dressed and gentlemanly in aspect; but neither Rowan nor either of his companions gave the impression of what might be designated as the "first circles of society," even in the great grain-metropolis of the West.
He had returned from the commercial metropolis only the day before, and had taken the very earliest moment to acknowledge the reception of her missive and to express his sympathy in her disappointment--perhaps something more.
What is true of the metropolis at that time is of course doubly true of the provinces; and a genteel little city like the one I am speaking of must have been a kind of focus of insular propriety.
On the destruction of Carthage it became a metropolis to the Romans, and the head quarters of their operations in Africa.
It was formerly called Pella by the first Macedonians, because most of the soldiers of the Macedonian army had settled there; for Pella, the native place of Philip and Alexander, was held to be the metropolis of the Macedonians.
Other writers use the same language, and consider Thebes as the metropolis of Egypt.
It was reserved for Constantine to erect over against Rome a rivalmetropolis for the civilized world, an imperial city which was to be neither a mere camp nor a mere court, but the administrative and commercial centre of the Roman world.
His main object was to strike a blow at Antioch, the metropolis of the East, a rich city that had not seen an enemy for nearly three centuries, and was reckoned safe from all attacks owing to its distance from the frontier.
Deane should not be universally allowed to be as near the metropolis as any other country villages.
Well, if this is the hospitality that the Metropolis offers to a youthful and inoffensive chemist and druggist, I shan't avail myself of it again in a hurry.
I shan't forget my visit to the metropolisof civilized England in a hurry.
Continuing our glance westward, a thousand miles from Bonavista, beyond the ancient fortress of Quebec, we behold Montreal, the commercial metropolis of the Dominion.
It was as different from the mixed mass of human beings of all classes and conditions you meet at the Derby or the other horse races near the metropolis as can be imagined.
Attempts were likewise made to enforce the use of the new Imperial Calendar, but little success crowned such efforts, no one outside the metropolis believing for a moment that this innovation possessed any of the elements of permanence.
The Church of St. John the Evangelist in this metropolis has been illuminated with gas-lights for upwards of two years: the lights employed in this edifice is equal to 360 tallow candles eight to the pound.
