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... knowledge of times before their own , we may not think these phrases inconsistent with the calcu- tion . Newton agrees with Herodotus in making them contemporaries . - Madame Dacier will have Homer to be older than Hesiod , because he ...
... knowledge of times before their own , we may not think these phrases inconsistent with the calcu- tion . Newton agrees with Herodotus in making them contemporaries . - Madame Dacier will have Homer to be older than Hesiod , because he ...
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... knowledge , that there is no heroic poem , that does not appear cold , inanimate and insipid , in compa- rison . If they did prefer their own , they would still be unanimous in giving their second vote to Homer ; as the commanders at ...
... knowledge , that there is no heroic poem , that does not appear cold , inanimate and insipid , in compa- rison . If they did prefer their own , they would still be unanimous in giving their second vote to Homer ; as the commanders at ...
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... knowledge ; but because , of all the sciences , it was of the greatest importance to the ancients ; since their progress in the arts of navigation and agriculture could neither be effected nor explained without it . The principles of ...
... knowledge ; but because , of all the sciences , it was of the greatest importance to the ancients ; since their progress in the arts of navigation and agriculture could neither be effected nor explained without it . The principles of ...
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... knowledge , which occur in my authors , are very inconsiderable . Newton may have had reason for his reliance on the celestial sphere , constructed by Chiron , and the con- fidence , with which he builds his system of Chro- nology on ...
... knowledge , which occur in my authors , are very inconsiderable . Newton may have had reason for his reliance on the celestial sphere , constructed by Chiron , and the con- fidence , with which he builds his system of Chro- nology on ...
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... knowledge . How far the knowledge of Homer and Hesiod fell short of this degree of science , will appear by the following ob- servations on their works . From the poetical descriptions of the sun's rising and setting in the ocean , * we ...
... knowledge . How far the knowledge of Homer and Hesiod fell short of this degree of science , will appear by the following ob- servations on their works . From the poetical descriptions of the sun's rising and setting in the ocean , * we ...
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