Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 5W. and R. Chambers, 1868 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Greek with Hebrew idioms , or what has been called Hellenistic Greek . The tradition , however , of a Hebrew original of St Matthew's gospel is uniform . In the fragment of Papias , and in the statement of Irenæus - the earliest sources ...
... Greek with Hebrew idioms , or what has been called Hellenistic Greek . The tradition , however , of a Hebrew original of St Matthew's gospel is uniform . In the fragment of Papias , and in the statement of Irenæus - the earliest sources ...
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... Greek architecture and Gothic architecture ; that these are the two typical styles , and that in them are contained all the elements of which all other styles are composed . This is no doubt to some extent true , just as it is also true ...
... Greek architecture and Gothic architecture ; that these are the two typical styles , and that in them are contained all the elements of which all other styles are composed . This is no doubt to some extent true , just as it is also true ...
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... Greek grammar for the use of his Roman pupils ( about 80 B. c . ) . This work , which still exists , though much interpolated , became the basis of all subsequent grammars , both Greek and Latin ; tongues came to be written , they ...
... Greek grammar for the use of his Roman pupils ( about 80 B. c . ) . This work , which still exists , though much interpolated , became the basis of all subsequent grammars , both Greek and Latin ; tongues came to be written , they ...
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... Greek temples are. at Point Pleasant , after a course of about 400 miles . About 100 miles from its mouth , on being ... Greeks termed them knemides ( whence the frequent expression in the Iliad , euknemides Achaioi , the well - greaved ...
... Greek temples are. at Point Pleasant , after a course of about 400 miles . About 100 miles from its mouth , on being ... Greeks termed them knemides ( whence the frequent expression in the Iliad , euknemides Achaioi , the well - greaved ...
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... Greek colonists in Asia Minor , to have been modelled on the grace- ful proportions of the female figure , as the ... Greek architecture can be traced . But it is for the first idea only that the Greeks are indebted to Egypt and Assyria ...
... Greek colonists in Asia Minor , to have been modelled on the grace- ful proportions of the female figure , as the ... Greek architecture can be traced . But it is for the first idea only that the Greeks are indebted to Egypt and Assyria ...
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