General Biography: Or Lives, Critical And Historical, Of The Most Eminent Persons Of All Ages, Countries, Conditions And Professions, Arranged According To Alphabetical Order, Volume 9Robinson, 1814 - 644 pages |
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... Greek , and of this version some fragments are preserved in Porphyry on abstinence from the flesh of ani- mals , and in the evangelical preparation of Eu- sebius . Dodwell , in an express treatise , has en- deavoured to show that the ...
... Greek , and of this version some fragments are preserved in Porphyry on abstinence from the flesh of ani- mals , and in the evangelical preparation of Eu- sebius . Dodwell , in an express treatise , has en- deavoured to show that the ...
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... Greek poetess , was a na- tive of Mitylene in the Isle of Lesbos , and flou- rished about B.C. 610. She married a rich inha- bitant of Andros , by whom she had a daughter ; and it appears to have been after she became a widow that she ...
... Greek poetess , was a na- tive of Mitylene in the Isle of Lesbos , and flou- rished about B.C. 610. She married a rich inha- bitant of Andros , by whom she had a daughter ; and it appears to have been after she became a widow that she ...
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... Greek minor poets . Of the Ode , an elegant translation is given by Catullus . That and the Hymn are known to the English reader by the versions of Ambrose Philips . Some writers mention two Sapphos , one of Eresa , the other of ...
... Greek minor poets . Of the Ode , an elegant translation is given by Catullus . That and the Hymn are known to the English reader by the versions of Ambrose Philips . Some writers mention two Sapphos , one of Eresa , the other of ...
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... Greek and Roman languages , which he afterwards improved so far by his own applica- tion to the classics , as to hear the works of Euclid , Archimedes , and Diophantus read in their original Greek . Having finished the usual course at ...
... Greek and Roman languages , which he afterwards improved so far by his own applica- tion to the classics , as to hear the works of Euclid , Archimedes , and Diophantus read in their original Greek . Having finished the usual course at ...
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... Greek language to Queen Elizabeth . In 1581 he published a translation of the four first books of Tacitus , with the life of Agricola , accom- panied with notes , which were afterwards translated into Latin by Gruter , and published at ...
... Greek language to Queen Elizabeth . In 1581 he published a translation of the four first books of Tacitus , with the life of Agricola , accom- panied with notes , which were afterwards translated into Latin by Gruter , and published at ...
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