A Classical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Principal Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors and Intended to Elucidate All the Important Points Connected with the Geography, History, Biography, Mythology, and Fine Arts. Together with an Account of Coins, Weights, and Measures, with Tabular Values of the SameHarper, 1890 - 1451 |
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... earliest periods . No improvements , resulting from experience and observation , were admit- ted in the mode of drawing ... early inhabitants . Be sides the necessity which existed of providing recep tacles for the embalmed bodies of the ...
... earliest periods . No improvements , resulting from experience and observation , were admit- ted in the mode of drawing ... early inhabitants . Be sides the necessity which existed of providing recep tacles for the embalmed bodies of the ...
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... early and cu- guishes into the inhabitants of Meroe and the Macrobii , rious belief respecting the Ethiopian race , that they In Strabo ( 800 ) and Pliny ( 6 , 29 ) we find other tribes and stood highest in the favour of the gods , and ...
... early and cu- guishes into the inhabitants of Meroe and the Macrobii , rious belief respecting the Ethiopian race , that they In Strabo ( 800 ) and Pliny ( 6 , 29 ) we find other tribes and stood highest in the favour of the gods , and ...
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... early governor , and at the age of eight years , Lysimachus , an Acarnanian , became his instructer . Plutarch gives this individual an unfa- vourable character , and insinuates that he was more desirous of ingratiating himself with the ...
... early governor , and at the age of eight years , Lysimachus , an Acarnanian , became his instructer . Plutarch gives this individual an unfa- vourable character , and insinuates that he was more desirous of ingratiating himself with the ...
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... early legend . The bright stars in the constellation of Capella become the fair , white she - goat Amalthea . The storms and clouds which the constellation brings with it , become the fear - inspiring look on the part of the animal ...
... early legend . The bright stars in the constellation of Capella become the fair , white she - goat Amalthea . The storms and clouds which the constellation brings with it , become the fear - inspiring look on the part of the animal ...
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... early , and at noon about 40 ° . The truth appears to le , that no change takes place in the temperature of the water , but in that of the surrounding atmosphere ; for the well is deeply shaded , and about 60 feet deep . The account of ...
... early , and at noon about 40 ° . The truth appears to le , that no change takes place in the temperature of the water , but in that of the surrounding atmosphere ; for the well is deeply shaded , and about 60 feet deep . The account of ...
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