Encyclopędia 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; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volum 4Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1835 |
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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 Idyls 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 Idyls of Theocritus , and several of Plutarch's Lives . He likewise published an ...
Pągina 13
... 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 Bauer , 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 Bauer , in Berlin , which is ...
Pągina 17
... 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 ...
Pągina 51
... ancients was simply a piece of wood , fastened across a tree or upright post , on which were executed criminals of ... ancient monuments , are to be found crosses placed in the hands of statues of Victory , and of figures of em- perors ...
... ancients was simply a piece of wood , fastened across a tree or upright post , on which were executed criminals of ... ancient monuments , are to be found crosses placed in the hands of statues of Victory , and of figures of em- perors ...
Pągina 54
... ancient ge- ography ; a Greek republic in Magna Gręcia , or South Italy . Livy gives the circumference of the city of Crotona at 12,000 paces . This city was famous for producing the strongest athleta . Milo , e . g . , was born here ...
... ancient ge- ography ; a Greek republic in Magna Gręcia , or South Italy . Livy gives the circumference of the city of Crotona at 12,000 paces . This city was famous for producing the strongest athleta . Milo , e . g . , was born here ...
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Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volum 4 Francis Lieber,Edward Wigglesworth Visualització completa - 1838 |
Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volum 4 Francis Lieber Visualització completa - 1840 |
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