Encyclopædia 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 Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Company, 1838 |
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Pàgina 5
... became the general name of the Greeks . Greece now raised itself from its savage state , and improved still more rapidly after the arrival of some Phoenician and Egyptian colonies . About 60 years after the flood of Deucalion , Cadmus ...
... became the general name of the Greeks . Greece now raised itself from its savage state , and improved still more rapidly after the arrival of some Phoenician and Egyptian colonies . About 60 years after the flood of Deucalion , Cadmus ...
Pàgina 6
... became the seat of learn- ing . As they , also , in process of time , fell under the dominion of the Romans , they became , like their mother country , the instructers of their conquerors . In the time of Augustus , the Greeks lost even ...
... became the seat of learn- ing . As they , also , in process of time , fell under the dominion of the Romans , they became , like their mother country , the instructers of their conquerors . In the time of Augustus , the Greeks lost even ...
Pàgina 9
... became common in Greece , and the beginning of prose wri- ting , in about the same period , 554 before Christ , and about as long after Homer . In Homer's time , all knowledge , religion and laws were preserved by memory alone , and for ...
... became common in Greece , and the beginning of prose wri- ting , in about the same period , 554 before Christ , and about as long after Homer . In Homer's time , all knowledge , religion and laws were preserved by memory alone , and for ...
Pàgina 11
... became the characteristic of the Grecian religion , in which no other morality could subsist but that which teaches the enjoy- ment of the pleasures of life with pru- dence . Hitherto poetry had been the on- ly instructress of the ...
... became the characteristic of the Grecian religion , in which no other morality could subsist but that which teaches the enjoy- ment of the pleasures of life with pru- dence . Hitherto poetry had been the on- ly instructress of the ...
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... became the model of quiet , unos- tentatious historical writing . These three historians are the most distinguished of this period , in which we must , moreover , mention Ctesias , Philistus , Theopompus , Euphorus , who , however ...
... became the model of quiet , unos- tentatious historical writing . These three historians are the most distinguished of this period , in which we must , moreover , mention Ctesias , Philistus , Theopompus , Euphorus , who , however ...
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Pàgina 128 - St. John's Palace, an ancient house in Wells Street, is believed to have been the residence of the prior of the order of St. John of Jerusalem. Pop. 60,000. — Hackney-coaches took their name from this parish. HADDINQTON, or KAST-LOTHIAW, had' -ding -ton, a county of Scotland, bounded E.