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... ment : and it will be amusing to all , to be introduced to the interior of a family , that existed three thousand years before we were born . As many of the particulars , to which we shall have occasion to advert , are connected with ...
... ment : and it will be amusing to all , to be introduced to the interior of a family , that existed three thousand years before we were born . As many of the particulars , to which we shall have occasion to advert , are connected with ...
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... ment ; and that one author has copied from the other there can be no doubt , for the words are the same in both . On the whole , I think , the test of imitation would indicate , that Hesiod wrote before Homer . I conceive , that when ...
... ment ; and that one author has copied from the other there can be no doubt , for the words are the same in both . On the whole , I think , the test of imitation would indicate , that Hesiod wrote before Homer . I conceive , that when ...
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William Bruce. posed , that even then it was famous for some instru- ment of the same nature . Mr. Wood , however , thinks this passage , as well as many others , may be elucidated by placing ourselves in the situation of Homer , who ...
William Bruce. posed , that even then it was famous for some instru- ment of the same nature . Mr. Wood , however , thinks this passage , as well as many others , may be elucidated by placing ourselves in the situation of Homer , who ...
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... ment for cleansing water courses . He also reminds the farmer of the great number of pieces + necessary to make a cart , that he may provide accordingly . The other implements mentioned , are , the scythe , for mowing grass , which was ...
... ment for cleansing water courses . He also reminds the farmer of the great number of pieces + necessary to make a cart , that he may provide accordingly . The other implements mentioned , are , the scythe , for mowing grass , which was ...
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... ment of their grass lands . Whether they had any meadow , in our sense of the word , is not clear , ex- cept that from a passage in Hesiod it would appear , that they saved hay and other forage ; and from Homer , that they mowed grass ...
... ment of their grass lands . Whether they had any meadow , in our sense of the word , is not clear , ex- cept that from a passage in Hesiod it would appear , that they saved hay and other forage ; and from Homer , that they mowed grass ...
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