The Quarterly Review, Volume 5William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1811 - English literature |
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... established a sort of sovereignty in the Chersonese , about 560 years before our æra . But this Miltiades was the sixteenth in descent from Ajax Telamon ; and allowing , according to the usual computation , three generations to a ...
... established a sort of sovereignty in the Chersonese , about 560 years before our æra . But this Miltiades was the sixteenth in descent from Ajax Telamon ; and allowing , according to the usual computation , three generations to a ...
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... establish . Desirous of accommodating his genealogies to certain preconceived notions , be strained them beyond all bounds ; and , not content with vindicating the vulgar chronology against the Newtonian , ac- tually placed the Trojan ...
... establish . Desirous of accommodating his genealogies to certain preconceived notions , be strained them beyond all bounds ; and , not content with vindicating the vulgar chronology against the Newtonian , ac- tually placed the Trojan ...
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... establish the point by actual examination , that , in most cases where reigns have been shorter than the average length of a generation , they have been abbreviated by an interrup tion of the direct line , and perhaps by the ...
... establish the point by actual examination , that , in most cases where reigns have been shorter than the average length of a generation , they have been abbreviated by an interrup tion of the direct line , and perhaps by the ...
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... established by a certain weight of testimony , Newton was fully aware : much better aware than , we are sorry to say , Freret latterly shewed himself . In the present case , how- ever , the testimony is extremely imperfect . It is that ...
... established by a certain weight of testimony , Newton was fully aware : much better aware than , we are sorry to say , Freret latterly shewed himself . In the present case , how- ever , the testimony is extremely imperfect . It is that ...
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... established canons of computation , some new calculus , confessed- ly neither sauctioned by experience , nor prescribed by unerring authority . It was comparatively little for the ancient chronologers to hand down to us a collection of ...
... established canons of computation , some new calculus , confessed- ly neither sauctioned by experience , nor prescribed by unerring authority . It was comparatively little for the ancient chronologers to hand down to us a collection of ...
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