Now the five thousand, upon coming nearer to the frontier of Lazica, encamped in a body beside the Phasis River, and from there they went about in small bands and plundered the neighbouring country.
And he did as directed, moving forward with the whole Roman army with the River Phasis on the left, until he came to the place where the Lazi where encamped on the opposite bank of the river.
XXX But Mermeroes, after passing the Iberian frontier with the whole Median army, was moving forward with the River Phasis on his right.
The history of these men is what we have now to look at, as our last phasis of Heroism.
I account it the culminating point of Protestantism; the most heroic phasis that "Faith in the Bible" was appointed to exhibit here below.
In some senses, one may say it is the only phasis of Protestantism that ever got to the rank of being a Faith, a true heart-communication with Heaven, and of exhibiting itself in History as such.
The most interesting phasis which the Reformation anywhere assumes, especially for us English, is that of Puritanism.
My last remark is on that notablest phasis of Burns's history,--his visit to Edinburgh.
In these Discourses, limited as we are, it will be good to direct our survey chiefly to that religious phasis of the matter.
But what rivers are we to identify with the Phasis and Harpasus, the distance between the Euphrates and Phasis being seventy parasangs, and between the Phasis and Harpasus ninety-five, and the Harpasus being the larger of the two rivers?
As it successively collects the streams of the plain of Colchos, the Phasis moves with diminished speed, though accumulated weight.
Tradition has affirmed, with some color of reason, that Egypt planted on the Phasis a learned and polite colony, which manufactured linen, built navies, and invented geographical maps.
But the authority and eloquence of the wiser few obtained a salutary pause: the victory of the Phasis restored the terror of the Roman arms, and the emperor was solicitous to absolve his own name from the imputation of so foul a murder.
We here enter upon a new phasis in the history of the Reformation; and having studied the work of God in the faith of the little ones, we proceed to contemplate the work of man in the intrigues of the great ones of the earth.
In him the political phasis was followed by the religious.
After these two degrees of decline came the last and great phasis of the Reformation.
Tis not now Caucasus nor cold Phasis that send forces against me; wars arise in the very centre of my empire.
Kings shall pass under his yoke, frozen Phasis shall bear his horses’ hooves, and Araxes submit perforce to be bridged by him.
Upon the Phasis is a city of the same name, a mart of the Colchians, bounded on one side by the river, on another by a lake, on the third by the sea.
According as the one or the other phasis of their mind is exclusively regarded, they are accounted by some as always crazy, by others as uncommonly shrewd and capable.
It would go to the pocket of Vanity (which is your clearest phasis of the Devil, in these times); therefore must we withhold it.
I account it the culminating point of Protestantism; the most heroic phasis that 'Faith in the Bible' was appointed to exhibit here below.
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