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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... passage in Pausanias , the verbal correctness of which as delivered down to us , Mr. Mitford disputes ; and , even if the passage be incorrupt , there was abundant room for a mistake on the part of the author . It is hardly necessary to ...
... passage in Pausanias , the verbal correctness of which as delivered down to us , Mr. Mitford disputes ; and , even if the passage be incorrupt , there was abundant room for a mistake on the part of the author . It is hardly necessary to ...
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... passage in Herodotus rigidly , both the form of expression which he uses , and the context , leave abundant scope for the subtraction which the Newtonian chronology requires . In the preceding sentence , the historian remarks that the ...
... passage in Herodotus rigidly , both the form of expression which he uses , and the context , leave abundant scope for the subtraction which the Newtonian chronology requires . In the preceding sentence , the historian remarks that the ...
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... passages , together with a note , which appear to us to call for some distinct animadversion , and this , as involving higher interests than those which occupy the attention of the mere chronologist . The first of these passages , with ...
... passages , together with a note , which appear to us to call for some distinct animadversion , and this , as involving higher interests than those which occupy the attention of the mere chronologist . The first of these passages , with ...
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... passages , with the note annexed to it , is as follows : * ' Platon dit en effet que la musique et la sculpture étoient encore de son temps en Egypte au même point où elles étoient il y avoit dix mille ans ; ce n'est pas une façon de ...
... passages , with the note annexed to it , is as follows : * ' Platon dit en effet que la musique et la sculpture étoient encore de son temps en Egypte au même point où elles étoient il y avoit dix mille ans ; ce n'est pas une façon de ...
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... passage of M. Clavier , on which we would here offer a comment , is that with which he commences his history . ' Il nous importe assez peu de savoir si les peuples qui habitoient primitivement le Péloponnèse étoient Autochthones , c'est ...
... passage of M. Clavier , on which we would here offer a comment , is that with which he commences his history . ' Il nous importe assez peu de savoir si les peuples qui habitoient primitivement le Péloponnèse étoient Autochthones , c'est ...
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