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 7
... character of the an- cient Greeks , were simplicity and gran- deur . The Greek was his own instruct- er , and if he learned any thing from oth- ers , he did it with freedom and independ- ence . Nature was his great model , and in his ...
... character of the an- cient Greeks , were simplicity and gran- deur . The Greek was his own instruct- er , and if he learned any thing from oth- ers , he did it with freedom and independ- ence . Nature was his great model , and in his ...
Pàgina 10
... character , ob- tained principally in the northern parts of Greece , Thrace and Macedonia . We must here remark , that intellectual cultiva- tion did not prosper at once in Greece , nor display itself simultaneously among all the tribes ...
... character , ob- tained principally in the northern parts of Greece , Thrace and Macedonia . We must here remark , that intellectual cultiva- tion did not prosper at once in Greece , nor display itself simultaneously among all the tribes ...
Pàgina 11
... character of the Greeks that particular direction , by which it was 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 ...
... character of the Greeks that particular direction , by which it was 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 ...
Pàgina 12
... character . The phi- losophy of life must precede the philos- ophy of science . Philosophy must give lessons of wisdom , before it can furnish scientific systems . In this light must we consider the seven wise men of Greece , as they ...
... character . The phi- losophy of life must precede the philos- ophy of science . Philosophy must give lessons of wisdom , before it can furnish scientific systems . In this light must we consider the seven wise men of Greece , as they ...
Pàgina 14
... characters to ridicule , was re- stricted , and the middle comedy was thus gradually formed , in which the chorus was abolished , and , with delineations of gen- eral character , characteristic masks were also introduced . In this ...
... characters to ridicule , was re- stricted , and the middle comedy was thus gradually formed , in which the chorus was abolished , and , with delineations of gen- eral character , characteristic masks were also introduced . In this ...
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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.