The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 5Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1830 - English literature |
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... Greece till after the Alexandrian age , it was necessary to investigate and probe to the bottom a cir- cumstance so mysterious , not to say anything worse of it . The history of the people , therefore , their moral character and ...
... Greece till after the Alexandrian age , it was necessary to investigate and probe to the bottom a cir- cumstance so mysterious , not to say anything worse of it . The history of the people , therefore , their moral character and ...
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... Greece , where idle- ness and solitude were unknown . The state was tasked , so to speak , with the duty of amusing the citizens . All Greece crowded to the Olympic games , to hear Herodotus read his history . At Athens , the funds of ...
... Greece , where idle- ness and solitude were unknown . The state was tasked , so to speak , with the duty of amusing the citizens . All Greece crowded to the Olympic games , to hear Herodotus read his history . At Athens , the funds of ...
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... Greece , inhabiting a rough country , whose ungenial soil was only thinly scattered with oases of fertility , had little inducement to form strong local attachments . A wild and lawless race , they were engaged in perpetual strife , and ...
... Greece , inhabiting a rough country , whose ungenial soil was only thinly scattered with oases of fertility , had little inducement to form strong local attachments . A wild and lawless race , they were engaged in perpetual strife , and ...
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... Greece whose inhabitants lived both by sea and land in the barbarous manner of earlier times . * Emerging , in the natural progress of society , from a state of utter barbarism , the early Greeks at length walled their towns , and ...
... Greece whose inhabitants lived both by sea and land in the barbarous manner of earlier times . * Emerging , in the natural progress of society , from a state of utter barbarism , the early Greeks at length walled their towns , and ...
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... Greece and Asia ; * and Lycophron , agreeing with the historian , traces the origin of the savage wars which led to the conquest of a world by " Macedonia's madman , " to the abduction of Lo by the Phenicians . † Such was the remarkable ...
... Greece and Asia ; * and Lycophron , agreeing with the historian , traces the origin of the savage wars which led to the conquest of a world by " Macedonia's madman , " to the abduction of Lo by the Phenicians . † Such was the remarkable ...
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Page 431 - When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language ; 2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
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Page 424 - Jerusalem : with his companion Gabriel, he successively ascended the seven heavens, and received and repaid the salutations of the patriarchs, the prophets, and the angels, in their respective mansions. Beyond the seventh heaven, Mahomet alone was permitted to proceed ; he passed the veil of unity, approached within two bow-shots of the throne, and felt a cold that pierced him to the heart, when his shoulder was touched by the hand of God.
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Page 310 - March, (22d) 1829, by mutual consent, between these same powers, on the basis of the said treaty, and containing the arrangement of detail, relative to its definitive execution. Immediately after the exchange of the ratification of the present treaty of peace, the Sublime Porte shall appoint plenipotentiaries to settle with those of the Imperial Court of Russia, and of the courts of England and France, the execution of the said stipulation, and arrangements.
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Page 437 - She who with seven heads tower'd at her birth, And from ten horns her proof of glory drew, Long as her spouse in virtue took delight. Of gold and silver ye have made your god, Differing wherein from the idolater, But that he worships one, a hundred ye?
Page 140 - HO shall awake the Spartan fife, And call in solemn sounds to life The youths, whose locks divinely spreading, Like vernal hyacinths in sullen hue...