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 8
... Writing . The language , which we call Greek , was not the primitive language of Greece , for Greece was originally ... writers of this nation have transmitted the peculiarities of the different dialects in the use of single letters ...
... Writing . The language , which we call Greek , was not the primitive language of Greece , for Greece was originally ... writers of this nation have transmitted the peculiarities of the different dialects in the use of single letters ...
Pàgina 9
... writing , has long been a subject of doubt . According to the general opinion , Cadmus , the Phoeni- cian , introduced the alphabet into Greece . His alphabet consisted of but 16 letters ; four ( ex ) are said to have been in- vented by ...
... writing , has long been a subject of doubt . According to the general opinion , Cadmus , the Phoeni- cian , introduced the alphabet into Greece . His alphabet consisted of but 16 letters ; four ( ex ) are said to have been in- vented by ...
Pàgina 10
... writing . From its very nature , the epopee must be historical , in an enlarged sense . Under such circumstances , it is not strange that regular schools for poets were established ; for the imagination of the first poet fired the ...
... writing . From its very nature , the epopee must be historical , in an enlarged sense . Under such circumstances , it is not strange that regular schools for poets were established ; for the imagination of the first poet fired the ...
Pàgina 12
... writers ( see Gnomic ) , Theognis , Phocyli- des , Pythagoras , deserve to be named ; as a fabulist , Æsop . In the ... writing , that had now become com- mon in Greece , with the introduction of the Egyptian papyrus , prepared the way ...
... writers ( see Gnomic ) , Theognis , Phocyli- des , Pythagoras , deserve to be named ; as a fabulist , Æsop . In the ... writing , that had now become com- mon in Greece , with the introduction of the Egyptian papyrus , prepared the way ...
Pàgina 13
... writing in prose , and Cad- mus , Dionysius and Hecatæus of Miletus , Acusilaus the Argive , Hellanicus of Mity- lene and Pherecydes of Scyros are among the oldest historical writers . After them appeared Herodotus ( q . v . ) , the ...
... writing in prose , and Cad- mus , Dionysius and Hecatæus of Miletus , Acusilaus the Argive , Hellanicus of Mity- lene and Pherecydes of Scyros are among the oldest historical writers . After them appeared Herodotus ( q . v . ) , the ...
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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.