The Quarterly Review, Volume 267William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1936 |
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... Greek ; one of that people about the ancestors of whom there is much talk throughout the civilised world . 1 We modern Greeks are convinced that we are directly descended from our ancient namesakes and are but as fresh leaves on an ...
... Greek ; one of that people about the ancestors of whom there is much talk throughout the civilised world . 1 We modern Greeks are convinced that we are directly descended from our ancient namesakes and are but as fresh leaves on an ...
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... Greek soil , and George Canning signed the protocol of Greek independence , some extra- ordinary hopes had arisen among enthusiasts in Western Europe . The man in the street , the man in the drawing- room , even the man in the ...
... Greek soil , and George Canning signed the protocol of Greek independence , some extra- ordinary hopes had arisen among enthusiasts in Western Europe . The man in the street , the man in the drawing- room , even the man in the ...
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... Greek language in its develop- ment throughout the centuries has become more analytical . The synthetism of classic language had been abandoned first in the spoken , afterwards in the written language , which , under the push of milder ...
... Greek language in its develop- ment throughout the centuries has become more analytical . The synthetism of classic language had been abandoned first in the spoken , afterwards in the written language , which , under the push of milder ...
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