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 |
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... Herodotus gives it as his opi- nion that those poets lived 400 years before himself . Now , 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 ...
... Herodotus gives it as his opi- nion that those poets lived 400 years before himself . Now , 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 ...
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... Herodotus . Whatever may be thought of the judgment of that historian , we had conceived that the suffrages of the learned world were now nearly unanimous in favour of his honesty ; but , to speak our own sentiments , we are inclined to ...
... Herodotus . Whatever may be thought of the judgment of that historian , we had conceived that the suffrages of the learned world were now nearly unanimous in favour of his honesty ; but , to speak our own sentiments , we are inclined to ...
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... Herodotus , we are forgetting an author who has more immediate claims on our courtesy . We shall now , therefore , proceed to submit to the reader a specimen of the performance of M. Clavier . It is extracted from his pre- liminary ...
... Herodotus , we are forgetting an author who has more immediate claims on our courtesy . We shall now , therefore , proceed to submit to the reader a specimen of the performance of M. Clavier . It is extracted from his pre- liminary ...
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... Herodotus , says our author , speaks of him comme d'un tyran violent et cruel ; ' but it behoves us , he continues , to be on our guard against the representations , on such matters , of He- rodotus , the prevailing object of that ...
... Herodotus , says our author , speaks of him comme d'un tyran violent et cruel ; ' but it behoves us , he continues , to be on our guard against the representations , on such matters , of He- rodotus , the prevailing object of that ...
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... Herodotus applies to this person , is , that he was the most domineering man of all the Greeks of his time ; * clearly alluding to his foreign , not to his domestic policy ; nor is there one syllable about his cruelty , or even his ...
... Herodotus applies to this person , is , that he was the most domineering man of all the Greeks of his time ; * clearly alluding to his foreign , not to his domestic policy ; nor is there one syllable about his cruelty , or even his ...
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