Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography, Том 4Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1830 |
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... ancient poets , wholly or in part , comprising selections from Homer and Virgil , nearly the whole of Horace , the thirteenth Satire of Juvenal , the Ídyls of Theocritus , and several of Plutarch's Lives . He likewise published an ...
... ancient poets , wholly or in part , comprising selections from Homer and Virgil , nearly the whole of Horace , the thirteenth Satire of Juvenal , the Ídyls of Theocritus , and several of Plutarch's Lives . He likewise published an ...
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... ancient Romans , as we learn from a passage in Cicero , were aware of its beau- ty , and practised it continually . - Crescendo is also the name of a musical instrument , invented in 1778 , by the counsellor Baner , in Berlin , which is ...
... ancient Romans , as we learn from a passage in Cicero , were aware of its beau- ty , and practised it continually . - Crescendo is also the name of a musical instrument , invented in 1778 , by the counsellor Baner , in Berlin , which is ...
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... ancient times of Greece , a body of Grecian poetry berrow- ed from the East . Homer , and more particularly Hesiod , instead of being the authors of the religion , or even of the mythology , of their country , merely intro- duce us to a ...
... ancient times of Greece , a body of Grecian poetry berrow- ed from the East . Homer , and more particularly Hesiod , instead of being the authors of the religion , or even of the mythology , of their country , merely intro- duce us to a ...
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... ancient description of the crocodile is that given by Herodotus , in his observations on Egypt , in his first book . This account , though mingled with a considerable share of fable , is gen- erally correct ; and some of the errors ...
... ancient description of the crocodile is that given by Herodotus , in his observations on Egypt , in his first book . This account , though mingled with a considerable share of fable , is gen- erally correct ; and some of the errors ...
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... ancient ge- ography ; a Greek republic in Magna Græcia , or South Italy . Livy gives the circumference of the city of Crotona at 12,000 paces . This city was famous for producing the strongest athlete . Milo , e . g . , was born here ...
... ancient ge- ography ; a Greek republic in Magna Græcia , or South Italy . Livy gives the circumference of the city of Crotona at 12,000 paces . This city was famous for producing the strongest athlete . Milo , e . g . , was born here ...
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