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... antiquities . For the proper discharge of that task , indeed , qualifications would be needed to which the writer lays no claim . The object of the present little work will be attained if it contribute to stir a wider interest in the ...
... antiquities . For the proper discharge of that task , indeed , qualifications would be needed to which the writer lays no claim . The object of the present little work will be attained if it contribute to stir a wider interest in the ...
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... antiquities are , in fact , too numerous to permit the entertainment of any reason- able doubt that the poet's experience lay in the daily round of Mycenæan life - of life , that is to say , governed by the same ideas and carried on ...
... antiquities are , in fact , too numerous to permit the entertainment of any reason- able doubt that the poet's experience lay in the daily round of Mycenæan life - of life , that is to say , governed by the same ideas and carried on ...
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... Tacitus says of the Germans , Autumni perinde nomen ac bona ignorantur ' ( Germania , cap . xxvi . ) * Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities , article ' Astronomy . ' D Works and Days . The same event was the harbin- HOMERIC ASTRONOMY . 33.
... Tacitus says of the Germans , Autumni perinde nomen ac bona ignorantur ' ( Germania , cap . xxvi . ) * Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities , article ' Astronomy . ' D Works and Days . The same event was the harbin- HOMERIC ASTRONOMY . 33.
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... antiquity of the Homeric poems . Not the faintest suspicion manifests itself in them that Hesperus , ' fairest of all stars set in heaven , ' is but another aspect of Phosphorus , herald of light 6 upon the earth , the star that saffron ...
... antiquity of the Homeric poems . Not the faintest suspicion manifests itself in them that Hesperus , ' fairest of all stars set in heaven , ' is but another aspect of Phosphorus , herald of light 6 upon the earth , the star that saffron ...
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... antiquity . There is , on the other hand , no difficulty in under- standing how the Seven Stars obtained their second title of the Wain , or Plough , or Bier . Here we have a plain case of imitative name - giving - a suggestion by ...
... antiquity . There is , on the other hand , no difficulty in under- standing how the Seven Stars obtained their second title of the Wain , or Plough , or Bier . Here we have a plain case of imitative name - giving - a suggestion by ...
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