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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... respect , that the book is , somewhat magnificently , announced in the title - page as designed for an intro- duction to all the existing histories of Greece ; and the fact is , that it was originally composed as introductory to the ...
... respect , that the book is , somewhat magnificently , announced in the title - page as designed for an intro- duction to all the existing histories of Greece ; and the fact is , that it was originally composed as introductory to the ...
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... respect- ing half a century , seems to have been adopted by the majority of late chronologers . The work of M. Clavier undoubtedly does great credit to his learning , industry , and research . By those who fully acquiesce in the ...
... respect- ing half a century , seems to have been adopted by the majority of late chronologers . The work of M. Clavier undoubtedly does great credit to his learning , industry , and research . By those who fully acquiesce in the ...
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... respecting the scheme of M. Clavier . It is not our purpose to expatiate on the confusedness and un- certainty , so long ago remarked by Pausanias , † of the old Greek genealogies , or on the embarrassing mixture of fable with which ...
... respecting the scheme of M. Clavier . It is not our purpose to expatiate on the confusedness and un- certainty , so long ago remarked by Pausanias , † of the old Greek genealogies , or on the embarrassing mixture of fable with which ...
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... respect to periods greatly more recent than the Trojan war . We are content , however , with drop- ping a hint on this part of the subject , and shall pursue our attack in a somewhat different quarter . It is found , that , on an ...
... respect to periods greatly more recent than the Trojan war . We are content , however , with drop- ping a hint on this part of the subject , and shall pursue our attack in a somewhat different quarter . It is found , that , on an ...
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... respecting several concurrent mo- narchies , occurrencies morally certain . A succession of reigns , therefore , does not ... respect to all ascertained time , is to be rejected from the early regal successions of Greece , and , were it ...
... respecting several concurrent mo- narchies , occurrencies morally certain . A succession of reigns , therefore , does not ... respect to all ascertained time , is to be rejected from the early regal successions of Greece , and , were it ...
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