Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Volume 6Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake B.B. Mussey & Company, 1851 |
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... took advantage , 80 years after the destruction of Troy , to possess themselves of the Peloponnesus . They drove out the Ionians and Achæans , who took refuge in Attica . But , not finding here sufficient room , Neleus ( 1044 ) led an ...
... took advantage , 80 years after the destruction of Troy , to possess themselves of the Peloponnesus . They drove out the Ionians and Achæans , who took refuge in Attica . But , not finding here sufficient room , Neleus ( 1044 ) led an ...
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... took place in the leading dialects cannot be determined . It follows from all this , that , to have a thorough knowledge of the Greek language , we must follow out , his- torically , the course of its formation , tak- ing no partial ...
... took place in the leading dialects cannot be determined . It follows from all this , that , to have a thorough knowledge of the Greek language , we must follow out , his- torically , the course of its formation , tak- ing no partial ...
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... took another turn ; and it is evident , that the use of an immense library must necessari- ly have made erudition triumph over the former free action of mind , which , how- ever , could not be immediately suppress- ed . In philosophy ...
... took another turn ; and it is evident , that the use of an immense library must necessari- ly have made erudition triumph over the former free action of mind , which , how- ever , could not be immediately suppress- ed . In philosophy ...
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... took measures with the others for frustrating the designs of their oppressors . The beys of the Morea then endeavored to disarm the sep- arate tribes ; but it was too late ; the Mai- notes , always free , descended from mount Taygetos ...
... took measures with the others for frustrating the designs of their oppressors . The beys of the Morea then endeavored to disarm the sep- arate tribes ; but it was too late ; the Mai- notes , always free , descended from mount Taygetos ...
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... took up arms , and obliged the Turks to shut themselves up in the fortified cities ; but these move- ments were not decisive , because they took place without cooperation ; and , in fact , nothing was effected , but the driving the ...
... took up arms , and obliged the Turks to shut themselves up in the fortified cities ; but these move- ments were not decisive , because they took place without cooperation ; and , in fact , nothing was effected , but the driving the ...
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Page 256 - I determined to venture, and alone, unadvised, and unassisted, on a blank leaf of an old law book, wrote the within.
Page 132 - Hager published an Explanation of the elementary Characters of the Chinese, with an' Analysis of their Symbols and Hieroglyphics (London, 1801, folio), and a Dissertation on the newly-discovered Babylonian Inscriptions (1801, 4to.).