Encyclopaedia 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 6Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1831 |
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Pàgina 3
... afterwards received the name of Hellas , and still lat- er , after the country was conquered by the Romans , the name of Achaia , under which Macedonia and Epirus were not included . The Grecian tribes were so widely dispersed , that it ...
... afterwards received the name of Hellas , and still lat- er , after the country was conquered by the Romans , the name of Achaia , under which Macedonia and Epirus were not included . The Grecian tribes were so widely dispersed , that it ...
Pàgina 6
... afterwards began to ex- cite dissensions in the Achæan league , interfered in the quarrels of the Greeks , and finally compelled them to take up arms to maintain their freedom . So un- equal a contest could not long remain un- decided ...
... afterwards began to ex- cite dissensions in the Achæan league , interfered in the quarrels of the Greeks , and finally compelled them to take up arms to maintain their freedom . So un- equal a contest could not long remain un- decided ...
Pàgina 7
... afterwards exalted and systematized by poetry and philosophy , and the improvement spread from the cultivated classes through the great mass of the people . In the most enlightened period of Greece , clearer ideas of the unity of the ...
... afterwards exalted and systematized by poetry and philosophy , and the improvement spread from the cultivated classes through the great mass of the people . In the most enlightened period of Greece , clearer ideas of the unity of the ...
Pàgina 9
... afterwards be- came ; and on this hypothesis we must explain the peculiarities of the style of Homer and Hesiod . " In Homer and Hesiod , " says Mathia , " forms and ex- pressions occur , which grammarians pro- nounce Æolic , Doric ...
... afterwards be- came ; and on this hypothesis we must explain the peculiarities of the style of Homer and Hesiod . " In Homer and Hesiod , " says Mathia , " forms and ex- pressions occur , which grammarians pro- nounce Æolic , Doric ...
Pàgina 11
... afterwards dis- tinguished , and which was most strikingly displayed in their religion ; which , for want of the necessary dignity , and espe cially of a caste of priests , was so indefi- nite , and therefore so fanciful . The mys ...
... afterwards dis- tinguished , and which was most strikingly displayed in their religion ; which , for want of the necessary dignity , and espe cially of a caste of priests , was so indefi- nite , and therefore so fanciful . The mys ...
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