The Geography System of Herodotus Examined and Explained, by a Comparison with Those of Other Ancient Authors, and with Modern Geography ...C.J.G. & F. Rivington, 1830 |
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... mean time , however , he has ventured so far as to prepare the first division of it , consisting of the GEOGRAPHY of HERODOTUS , and which , as pre- paring the ground for the remainder of the ancient geography , he now , with great ...
... mean time , however , he has ventured so far as to prepare the first division of it , consisting of the GEOGRAPHY of HERODOTUS , and which , as pre- paring the ground for the remainder of the ancient geography , he now , with great ...
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... means intended to form an abstract system , but to explain with more effect , the transactions recorded in a history , the theatre of which includes little more in Europe , than the provinces bordering on the Egean sea , the Propontis ...
... means intended to form an abstract system , but to explain with more effect , the transactions recorded in a history , the theatre of which includes little more in Europe , than the provinces bordering on the Egean sea , the Propontis ...
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... means of detecting them and hence , the same may be inferred in other places , where , through want of the requisite informa- tion , they escape detection . As to names , it appears that they are more correct , than one had a right to ...
... means of detecting them and hence , the same may be inferred in other places , where , through want of the requisite informa- tion , they escape detection . As to names , it appears that they are more correct , than one had a right to ...
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... mean marches of armies - Paces , the elementary part of iti- nerary measures ; and the Stade probably formed originally , of a hundred of these . THOSE Who have entered into the question concern- ing the length of the Grecian Stade ...
... mean marches of armies - Paces , the elementary part of iti- nerary measures ; and the Stade probably formed originally , of a hundred of these . THOSE Who have entered into the question concern- ing the length of the Grecian Stade ...
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... mean of the examples furnished by each respectively , is about a fourteenth part , and that in one instance alone ; but the more common difference is only a twenty - fourth part . Some have endeavoured to account for these dif- ferences ...
... mean of the examples furnished by each respectively , is about a fourteenth part , and that in one instance alone ; but the more common difference is only a twenty - fourth part . Some have endeavoured to account for these dif- ferences ...
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