Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Ed.; Including a Copius Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed., of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volum 4Lea & Blanchard, 1844 |
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Pàgina 9
... ancient poets , wholly or in part , comprising selections from Homer and Virgil , nearly the whole of Horace , the thirteenth Satire of Juvenal , the Idyls of Theocritus , and several of Plutarch's Lives . He likewise published an ...
... ancient poets , wholly or in part , comprising selections from Homer and Virgil , nearly the whole of Horace , the thirteenth Satire of Juvenal , the Idyls of Theocritus , and several of Plutarch's Lives . He likewise published an ...
Pàgina 13
... ancient Romans , as we learn from a passage in Cicero , were aware of its beau- ty , and practised it continually . - Crescendo is also the name of a musical instrument , invented in 1778 , by the counsellor Bauer , in Berlin , which is ...
... ancient Romans , as we learn from a passage in Cicero , were aware of its beau- ty , and practised it continually . - Crescendo is also the name of a musical instrument , invented in 1778 , by the counsellor Bauer , in Berlin , which is ...
Pàgina 17
... ancient times of Greece , a body of Grecian poetry berrow- ed from the East . Homer , and more particularly Hesiod , instead of being the authors of the religion , or even of the mythology , of their country , merely intro- duce us to a ...
... ancient times of Greece , a body of Grecian poetry berrow- ed from the East . Homer , and more particularly Hesiod , instead of being the authors of the religion , or even of the mythology , of their country , merely intro- duce us to a ...
Pàgina 41
... ancient description of the crocodile is that given by Herodotus , in his observations on Egypt , in his first book . This account , though mingled with a considerable share of fable , is gen- erally correct ; and some of the errors ...
... ancient description of the crocodile is that given by Herodotus , in his observations on Egypt , in his first book . This account , though mingled with a considerable share of fable , is gen- erally correct ; and some of the errors ...
Pàgina 51
... ancients was simply a piece of wood , fastened across a tree or upright post , on which were executed criminals of ... ancient monuments , are to be found crosses placed in the hands of statues of Victory , and of figures of em- perors ...
... ancients was simply a piece of wood , fastened across a tree or upright post , on which were executed criminals of ... ancient monuments , are to be found crosses placed in the hands of statues of Victory , and of figures of em- perors ...
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