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 6
... carried to the highest degree of refinement . But that unhappy period had now arrived , when the Greeks , ceasing to be free , ceased to advance in civilization . A kingdom , formed by con- quest , had grown up on the north of Greece ...
... carried to the highest degree of refinement . But that unhappy period had now arrived , when the Greeks , ceasing to be free , ceased to advance in civilization . A kingdom , formed by con- quest , had grown up on the north of Greece ...
Pàgina 14
... carried to perfection ; tragedy by Eschylus , Sophocles , Euripides ; comedy by Cratinus , Eupolis , Crates , but especial- ly by Aristophanes . Under the govern- ment of the thirty tyrants , the freedom , which comedy had possessed ...
... carried to perfection ; tragedy by Eschylus , Sophocles , Euripides ; comedy by Cratinus , Eupolis , Crates , but especial- ly by Aristophanes . Under the govern- ment of the thirty tyrants , the freedom , which comedy had possessed ...
Pàgina 20
... carried into slavery , and the flourish- ing peninsula made a desert . The monks and hermits on mount Athos ( Monte San- to ) , alone saved themselves by a heavy ransom , and remained undisturbed , be- cause the Turks consider these ...
... carried into slavery , and the flourish- ing peninsula made a desert . The monks and hermits on mount Athos ( Monte San- to ) , alone saved themselves by a heavy ransom , and remained undisturbed , be- cause the Turks consider these ...
Pàgina 22
... carried on shore , where he died . The Turks were at first stupified ; but their rage soon broke out , and the last traces of cultivation , the mastic villages , so lucra tive to the Porte , were destroyed . In Constantinople , Turks ...
... carried on shore , where he died . The Turks were at first stupified ; but their rage soon broke out , and the last traces of cultivation , the mastic villages , so lucra tive to the Porte , were destroyed . In Constantinople , Turks ...
Pàgina 25
... carried on by regular battles , but consisted of skirmishes , surprises , & c . , as every insurrection of an undisciplined people must ; and , generally speaking , it is the way in which men can most ef- fectually defend their own soil ...
... carried on by regular battles , but consisted of skirmishes , surprises , & c . , as every insurrection of an undisciplined people must ; and , generally speaking , it is the way in which men can most ef- fectually defend their own soil ...
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