 | 1877 - 798 pagina’s
...on high authority to be almost futile : " If any man is inclined to call the unknown ante - Hellenic period of Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open...predicates, noway enlarging our insight into real history."* Yet a historian of equal rank holds a more encouraging view : " There are several questions relating... | |
 | George Grote - 1846 - 662 pagina’s
...the first inhabitants of the country, but the first known to us upon any tolerable evidence. If any man is inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic...our insight into real history, nor enabling us to explain—what would be the real historical problem—how or from whom the Hellens acquired that stock... | |
 | 1848 - 734 pagina’s
...unceremoniously as if they were so much rubbish. This is his summary method of dispatching them : — " If any man is inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic...period of Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open for him to do so; but this is a name carrying with it no assured predicates, no way enlarging our insight... | |
 | 1848 - 722 pagina’s
...they were so much rubbish. This is his summary method of dispatching them : — '• If any man ¡a inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic period of Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open for him to do so ; but this is a name carrying with it no assured predicates, no way enlarging our... | |
 | 1848 - 1390 pagina’s
...inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic period of Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open for him to do so ; but this is a name carrying with it no assured predicates, no way enlarging our insight into real history, nor enabling us to explain — what would be the real... | |
 | George Grote - 1849 - 666 pagina’s
...the first inhabitants of the country, but the first known to us upon any tolerable evidence. If any man is inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic...the real historical problem — how or from whom the Hellens acquired that stock of dispositions, aptitudes, arts, &c. with which they begin their career.... | |
 | 1852 - 492 pagina’s
...sagacity, has been allured by these " Pelasgi." Grote makes little of them. " If any man," he says, " is inclined to call the unknown anteHellenic period...is a name carrying with it no assured predicates, no way enlarging our insight into real history, nor enabling us to explain — what would be the real... | |
 | Dawson William Turner - 1853 - 122 pagina’s
...was afterwards so prolific in works of art and genius.' — Don. NC ANTE-HEX.X.BWXC PERIOD. ' If any man is inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic...the real historical problem — how or from whom the Hellens acquired that stock of dispositions, aptitudes, arts, &C., with which they begin their career.... | |
 | George Grote - 1859 - 490 pagina’s
...the first inhabitants of the country, but the first known to us upon any tolerable evidence. If any man is inclined to call the unknown anteHellenic period...real history, nor enabling us to explain — what wrould be the real historical problem — how or from whom the Hellens acquired that stock of dispositions,... | |
 | 1856 - 668 pagina’s
...admits, in early Grecian history, some facts which seem to us to rest ou no sufficient evidence. Greece Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open to him to do so,' * we cannot fail to be reminded of the parliamentary phrase, ' it is open to any honourable member,'... | |
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If any man is inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic period of Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open to him to do so ; but this is a name carrying with it no assured predicates, noway enlarging our insight into real history... 
