The Quarterly Review, Volume 226John Murray, 1916 - English literature |
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... fact for which we have to account ; and the only evidence bearing on the matter is the Homeric epic and the consistent tradition of the Greeks that Troy was destroyed by an expedition from the Greek mainland . Accept the main fact of ...
... fact for which we have to account ; and the only evidence bearing on the matter is the Homeric epic and the consistent tradition of the Greeks that Troy was destroyed by an expedition from the Greek mainland . Accept the main fact of ...
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... fact . The Cretan discoveries showed that he was right . Thus the work of archæologists corroborated in three capital points the tradition of the Greeks . The Argolid --- Mycena and Tiryns - had been the seat of a strong and rich ...
... fact . The Cretan discoveries showed that he was right . Thus the work of archæologists corroborated in three capital points the tradition of the Greeks . The Argolid --- Mycena and Tiryns - had been the seat of a strong and rich ...
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... fact which has on more than one occasion proved serviceable to the British fleet . But Troy is so placed that it can easily command this also . A garrison in the castle could easily keep watch over both sources by stationing at them ...
... fact which has on more than one occasion proved serviceable to the British fleet . But Troy is so placed that it can easily command this also . A garrison in the castle could easily keep watch over both sources by stationing at them ...
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... fact so far as they can be controlled , and otherwise are self - consistent . Archæological discoveries have proved that in their picture of civilisation the poems are also true to fact , apart from some inevitable anachronisms . Such ...
... fact so far as they can be controlled , and otherwise are self - consistent . Archæological discoveries have proved that in their picture of civilisation the poems are also true to fact , apart from some inevitable anachronisms . Such ...
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... fact taken by the old minstrels , and the later inventions wrought by the art of Homer into the woof which they ... facts . Probability must indeed be our guide . But arguments of probability which consider what is likely to have ...
... fact taken by the old minstrels , and the later inventions wrought by the art of Homer into the woof which they ... facts . Probability must indeed be our guide . But arguments of probability which consider what is likely to have ...
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