The Quarterly Review, Volume 5William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1811 |
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... adopted by the majority of late chronologers . The work of M. Clavier undoubtedly does great credit to his learning , industry , and research . By those who fully acquiesce in the fundamental positions on which the author relies , this ...
... adopted by the majority of late chronologers . The work of M. Clavier undoubtedly does great credit to his learning , industry , and research . By those who fully acquiesce in the fundamental positions on which the author relies , this ...
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... adopt the computation of Dr. Hales , which makes the ratio of the average length of reigns to that of generations as 22 to 333 , or nearly 2 to 3 . • Thus fortified by historic experience , the Newtonians ask the question , Why a rule ...
... adopt the computation of Dr. Hales , which makes the ratio of the average length of reigns to that of generations as 22 to 333 , or nearly 2 to 3 . • Thus fortified by historic experience , the Newtonians ask the question , Why a rule ...
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... adopted by each , but to these solely as illus- trated by the history of the early times of Greece . The reader will . perceive that this path was prescribed to us by our present subject ; but it cannot be unknown to him , 1811. Clavier ...
... adopted by each , but to these solely as illus- trated by the history of the early times of Greece . The reader will . perceive that this path was prescribed to us by our present subject ; but it cannot be unknown to him , 1811. Clavier ...
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... adopted , unless it be admitted that the population of Greece was altogether derived from the east ; for any other derivation of it from a foreign source , certainly stands on still feebler grounds , or rather , is wholly unsupported ...
... adopted , unless it be admitted that the population of Greece was altogether derived from the east ; for any other derivation of it from a foreign source , certainly stands on still feebler grounds , or rather , is wholly unsupported ...
Pagina 37
... adopted by both the modern historians now under our eye , but with a gloss in either case , which it will be amusing to observe.es Hither ( says Mr. Mitford ) his remaining partisans in Athens flocked to his standard ; together with ...
... adopted by both the modern historians now under our eye , but with a gloss in either case , which it will be amusing to observe.es Hither ( says Mr. Mitford ) his remaining partisans in Athens flocked to his standard ; together with ...
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