The Quarterly Review, Volume 226John Murray, 1916 |
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... matter is the Homeric epic and the consistent tradition of the Greeks that Troy was destroyed by an expedition from the Greek mainland . Accept the main fact of the Trojan War , and it explains both the archæological problem and the ...
... matter is the Homeric epic and the consistent tradition of the Greeks that Troy was destroyed by an expedition from the Greek mainland . Accept the main fact of the Trojan War , and it explains both the archæological problem and the ...
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... matter of life and death . . . The natural supply of water for ships making the passage of the Straits is of course from the Scamander itself . This is easily defended ; there is no other permanent stream for several miles . . . . There ...
... matter of life and death . . . The natural supply of water for ships making the passage of the Straits is of course from the Scamander itself . This is easily defended ; there is no other permanent stream for several miles . . . . There ...
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... matter of temperament ; and there will probably always be some who will prefer to impose on the poet any number of inconsistencies and incongruities rather than sacrifice the tradition of the identity of the Homeric with the later ...
... matter of temperament ; and there will probably always be some who will prefer to impose on the poet any number of inconsistencies and incongruities rather than sacrifice the tradition of the identity of the Homeric with the later ...
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... matter was then referred to various learned Moslems in different cities , even to those resident so far off as remote Samarkand . At last the discussion , espe- cially between the Cairo Sheikh and a Tunisian Pundit , who threw himself ...
... matter was then referred to various learned Moslems in different cities , even to those resident so far off as remote Samarkand . At last the discussion , espe- cially between the Cairo Sheikh and a Tunisian Pundit , who threw himself ...
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... matter . The door of the room in which this interview took place was open , but a portière , which did not reach quite to the ground , hung over the opening . In the course of the con- versation Ismail Pasha , looking under the portière ...
... matter . The door of the room in which this interview took place was open , but a portière , which did not reach quite to the ground , hung over the opening . In the course of the con- versation Ismail Pasha , looking under the portière ...
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