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... reason , why the writer should falsely assume the name of the historian : his own fame would of course be sunk ; and there was no factious purpose to serve . The principal circumstance , which has led some learned men to question or ...
... reason , why the writer should falsely assume the name of the historian : his own fame would of course be sunk ; and there was no factious purpose to serve . The principal circumstance , which has led some learned men to question or ...
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... reason arising from the circumstances , as in Homer's Chimera . In Hesiod's war of the giants , and Homer's battle of the gods , there are two lines alike , with the excep- tion of a single word . The same resemblance holds throughout ...
... reason arising from the circumstances , as in Homer's Chimera . In Hesiod's war of the giants , and Homer's battle of the gods , there are two lines alike , with the excep- tion of a single word . The same resemblance holds throughout ...
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... reason , concede the prize of originality to Hesiod ; for it is impossible , that he should have so fallen off , had he seen Ho- mer . He would rather have passed it by as inimi- table . On the other hand , such a hint was well cal ...
... reason , concede the prize of originality to Hesiod ; for it is impossible , that he should have so fallen off , had he seen Ho- mer . He would rather have passed it by as inimi- table . On the other hand , such a hint was well cal ...
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... reasons for con- sidering Homer as an Æolian , and not an Ionian , or Dorian , and for fixing the precise time at which he lived ; though he himself was a Dorian , having acquired the Ionic dialect , in which he wrote , at Samos . That ...
... reasons for con- sidering Homer as an Æolian , and not an Ionian , or Dorian , and for fixing the precise time at which he lived ; though he himself was a Dorian , having acquired the Ionic dialect , in which he wrote , at Samos . That ...
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... 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 the precision of the Centaur , in ascer- taining the equinoctial and solstitial points ...
... 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 the precision of the Centaur , in ascer- taining the equinoctial and solstitial points ...
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