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... expression , particularly of epithets , running through their whole style . Omitting these , therefore , let us proceed to more decided marks of resemblance . 1 Hesiod says of a poet : + " A sweet voice flows from his mouth : " Homer ...
... expression , particularly of epithets , running through their whole style . Omitting these , therefore , let us proceed to more decided marks of resemblance . 1 Hesiod says of a poet : + " A sweet voice flows from his mouth : " Homer ...
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... expressed by the Grecian Bard : " As a lion , bred in the moun- tains , impelled by hunger to attack the sheep , and even to enter the fenced fold , though he find the shep- herds defending them with dogs and spears , cannot endure to ...
... expressed by the Grecian Bard : " As a lion , bred in the moun- tains , impelled by hunger to attack the sheep , and even to enter the fenced fold , though he find the shep- herds defending them with dogs and spears , cannot endure to ...
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... expression , already quoted , intimating , that the author was acquainted with the sphericity of the ' earth , or at least , which comes nearly to the same * 11. viii . 485 , xix . 1.—Od. xxii . 197 . point , with its being suspended in ...
... expression , already quoted , intimating , that the author was acquainted with the sphericity of the ' earth , or at least , which comes nearly to the same * 11. viii . 485 , xix . 1.—Od. xxii . 197 . point , with its being suspended in ...
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... Job calls the chambers of the south . As none of the * Il . xxii . 29. † Works and Days , 417. ‡ Works and Days , 566. § II . xi . 27 . * names , by which these celestial bodies are expressed ASTRONOMY AND CHRONOLOGY . 47.
... Job calls the chambers of the south . As none of the * Il . xxii . 29. † Works and Days , 417. ‡ Works and Days , 566. § II . xi . 27 . * names , by which these celestial bodies are expressed ASTRONOMY AND CHRONOLOGY . 47.
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William Bruce. * names , by which these celestial bodies are expressed , occur any where except in three passages ... expression for those southern parts , which lie within the circle of perpet- ual occultation . As to any observations on ...
William Bruce. * names , by which these celestial bodies are expressed , occur any where except in three passages ... expression for those southern parts , which lie within the circle of perpet- ual occultation . As to any observations on ...
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