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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... human beings from Japetus inclusive , we are not a little asto- nished at recognising , in the fourth step , our old acquaintance the volatile Mercury ; and that , after a similar descent , of no fewer than fourteen stages from Inachus ...
... human beings from Japetus inclusive , we are not a little asto- nished at recognising , in the fourth step , our old acquaintance the volatile Mercury ; and that , after a similar descent , of no fewer than fourteen stages from Inachus ...
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... human life had subsided to its present level . It still remains , then , to be explained , why the chronology of the regal lines below the Trojan war should not be reduced according to the modern staudard . And it is observable , that ...
... human life had subsided to its present level . It still remains , then , to be explained , why the chronology of the regal lines below the Trojan war should not be reduced according to the modern staudard . And it is observable , that ...
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... human descent , or of royal succession , and when we employ this result to settle the chro- nology of the catalogues of either kind transmitted down to us from the dark ages , we make use of a 14 Clavier - Histoire des premiers Temps de ...
... human descent , or of royal succession , and when we employ this result to settle the chro- nology of the catalogues of either kind transmitted down to us from the dark ages , we make use of a 14 Clavier - Histoire des premiers Temps de ...
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... human life was formerly far greater than at present , we qualify , with respect to the more ancient fables , the chronological calculus furnished by modern experience , here doubtless we admit an ex- ception to our rule , but an ...
... human life was formerly far greater than at present , we qualify , with respect to the more ancient fables , the chronological calculus furnished by modern experience , here doubtless we admit an ex- ception to our rule , but an ...
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... state of civilization , and that the average length of human life was at that time at least five times as great as at present , it becomes plain that population must 22 Clavier Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce . FEB .
... state of civilization , and that the average length of human life was at that time at least five times as great as at present , it becomes plain that population must 22 Clavier Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce . FEB .
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