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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... taken about 1090 years before our æra . Again ; Agis , king of Sparta , was the twenty - third in descent from Aristodemus , who was one of the He- raclidæ , and died just before the expedition of that family into the Peloponnesus ...
... taken about 1090 years before our æra . Again ; Agis , king of Sparta , was the twenty - third in descent from Aristodemus , who was one of the He- raclidæ , and died just before the expedition of that family into the Peloponnesus ...
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... taken into the account in the first instance . Lastly , it is urged that , from the beginning of the first Messe- nian war downwards , the assumed proportion of three reigns to a century was actually verified in both the Spartan lines ...
... taken into the account in the first instance . Lastly , it is urged that , from the beginning of the first Messe- nian war downwards , the assumed proportion of three reigns to a century was actually verified in both the Spartan lines ...
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... taken in the year before our æra 904 ; and Hesiod and Homer flourished 30 or 35 years afterwards . But Herodotus gives it as his opi- nion that those poets lived 400 years before himself . Now , says Dr. Hales , Herodo- tus was born ...
... taken in the year before our æra 904 ; and Hesiod and Homer flourished 30 or 35 years afterwards . But Herodotus gives it as his opi- nion that those poets lived 400 years before himself . Now , says Dr. Hales , Herodo- tus was born ...
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... taken by an uninvited volunteer . Pisistratus was , once and again , expelled from his government and from Athens ; and it is notorious that his final re - instatement was effected by force of arms . His first military operation , on ...
... taken by an uninvited volunteer . Pisistratus was , once and again , expelled from his government and from Athens ; and it is notorious that his final re - instatement was effected by force of arms . His first military operation , on ...
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... taken for covering the passage of rivers by têtes - de - pont , and other défences , of which Buonaparte knows so well how to avail himself , and by which he is always careful to provide for the security of his retreat . The ...
... taken for covering the passage of rivers by têtes - de - pont , and other défences , of which Buonaparte knows so well how to avail himself , and by which he is always careful to provide for the security of his retreat . The ...
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