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... Poetry ASTRONOMY · Chronology GEOGRAPHY AND NAVIGATION Ship - Building and Commerce AGRICULTURE Titles to Land · · Implements of Husbandry Seasons and Process of Ploughing , & c . Page . 8 21 29 31 37 51 54 78 90 93 95 98 109 112 114 ...
... Poetry ASTRONOMY · Chronology GEOGRAPHY AND NAVIGATION Ship - Building and Commerce AGRICULTURE Titles to Land · · Implements of Husbandry Seasons and Process of Ploughing , & c . Page . 8 21 29 31 37 51 54 78 90 93 95 98 109 112 114 ...
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... poets and historians , orators and philoso- phers , statesmen and warriors of the Augustan age . From his own works might be gleaned an account of his father and his Venusinian farm ; his education at Rome , and studies at Athens ; his ...
... poets and historians , orators and philoso- phers , statesmen and warriors of the Augustan age . From his own works might be gleaned an account of his father and his Venusinian farm ; his education at Rome , and studies at Athens ; his ...
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... poetry , by the father of history , and the few anecdotes , that have come down to us , relative to the Ascræan bard . The life of Homer , by Herodotus , is admitted to be a work of great antiquity , even by those , who doubt whether it ...
... poetry , by the father of history , and the few anecdotes , that have come down to us , relative to the Ascræan bard . The life of Homer , by Herodotus , is admitted to be a work of great antiquity , even by those , who doubt whether it ...
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... poet and his hearers delighted in the marvellous , and that few of those who heard him had any dis- tinct knowledge of times before their own , we may not think these phrases inconsistent with the calcu- tion . Newton agrees with ...
... poet and his hearers delighted in the marvellous , and that few of those who heard him had any dis- tinct knowledge of times before their own , we may not think these phrases inconsistent with the calcu- tion . Newton agrees with ...
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... poets , who are said to have flour- ished before them . The charge of imitation must be fixed by deciding the question of priority ; or the question of priority decided by fixing the charge of imitation . With respect to a common ...
... poets , who are said to have flour- ished before them . The charge of imitation must be fixed by deciding the question of priority ; or the question of priority decided by fixing the charge of imitation . With respect to a common ...
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