Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography. A New Ed.; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed. of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volum 6Francis Lieber Bazin and Ellsworth, 1859 |
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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 , Esop . 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 , Esop . 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 Hecateus of Miletus , Acusilaus the Argive , Hellanicus of Mity . lere 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 Hecateus of Miletus , Acusilaus the Argive , Hellanicus of Mity . lere and Pherecydes of Scyros are among the oldest historical writers . After them appeared Herodotus ( q . v . ) , the ...
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volum 6 Francis Lieber,Edward Wigglesworth Visualització completa - 1831 |
Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volum 6 Francis Lieber,Edward Wigglesworth Visualització completa - 1838 |
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