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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... says Dr. Hales , Herodo- tus was born B.C.484 . Therefore Hesiod and Homer lived B. C. 884. That is , they lived only 20 years after Newton's date for the taking of Troy ; and this , it seems , is absurd and altogether inconsistent with ...
... says Dr. Hales , Herodo- tus was born B.C.484 . Therefore Hesiod and Homer lived B. C. 884. That is , they lived only 20 years after Newton's date for the taking of Troy ; and this , it seems , is absurd and altogether inconsistent with ...
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... say the truth , we should have inclined to expect , that , in the present day , the objections urged against the Mosaic ... says our valuable antiquarian , Shuckford , the heathen writers endeavoured to pretend to antiquities beyond what ...
... say the truth , we should have inclined to expect , that , in the present day , the objections urged against the Mosaic ... says our valuable antiquarian , Shuckford , the heathen writers endeavoured to pretend to antiquities beyond what ...
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... says , is necessary to a free people , ' - Here an Englishman would have stopped ; for his reason and his heart would alike have told him , that no man could doubt under which class of go- vernments he reckoned that of his own country ...
... says , is necessary to a free people , ' - Here an Englishman would have stopped ; for his reason and his heart would alike have told him , that no man could doubt under which class of go- vernments he reckoned that of his own country ...
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... says , is that they very seldom thus offended , and that the brand of tyranny was only ma- liciously affixed to their names on the subsequent ascendancy of an opposite faction . M. Clavier , on the other hand , who resides un- der the ...
... says , is that they very seldom thus offended , and that the brand of tyranny was only ma- liciously affixed to their names on the subsequent ascendancy of an opposite faction . M. Clavier , on the other hand , who resides un- der the ...
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... says our author , speaks of him comme d'un tyran violent et cruel ; ' but it behoves us , he continues , to be on ... say the least of it , much misplaced . The notice of Phidon in Herodotus is entirely incidental , and li- terally does ...
... says our author , speaks of him comme d'un tyran violent et cruel ; ' but it behoves us , he continues , to be on ... say the least of it , much misplaced . The notice of Phidon in Herodotus is entirely incidental , and li- terally does ...
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