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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... Ptolemy , and Pliny . We have said , as far as it goes , because the geography of Herodotus is confined more to ASIA and AFRICA , than to EUROPE and is by no means intended to form an abstract system , but to explain with more effect ...
... Ptolemy , and Pliny . We have said , as far as it goes , because the geography of Herodotus is confined more to ASIA and AFRICA , than to EUROPE and is by no means intended to form an abstract system , but to explain with more effect ...
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... Ptolemy , about 600 years after Herodotus , did not greatly exceed that , which was known , in a general way , to Herodotus himself ; although during that interval all the knowledge acquired by the Macedonian and Roman expeditions , had ...
... Ptolemy , about 600 years after Herodotus , did not greatly exceed that , which was known , in a general way , to Herodotus himself ; although during that interval all the knowledge acquired by the Macedonian and Roman expeditions , had ...
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... Ptolemy , and to the Ro- mans . Again , Ethiopia , and the general course of the Nile , to a certain point , were alike known to Herodotus and to Ptolemy , by report ; although the place of the distant fountains of the Nile was in ...
... Ptolemy , and to the Ro- mans . Again , Ethiopia , and the general course of the Nile , to a certain point , were alike known to Herodotus and to Ptolemy , by report ; although the place of the distant fountains of the Nile was in ...
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... more in his proportions . Ptolemy was the first who approached the truth , in giving the relative pro- portions of the known regions of the globe , al- though the absolute measures in longitude given by him , PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS . 13.
... more in his proportions . Ptolemy was the first who approached the truth , in giving the relative pro- portions of the known regions of the globe , al- though the absolute measures in longitude given by him , PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS . 13.
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... Ptolemy , the names do not appear to have undergone much change . The scope of the geographical knowledge of our Author may be briefly comprised in the following description : Of EUROPE and ASIA , collectively , the northern boundary ...
... Ptolemy , the names do not appear to have undergone much change . The scope of the geographical knowledge of our Author may be briefly comprised in the following description : Of EUROPE and ASIA , collectively , the northern boundary ...
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Página 490 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Página 515 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Página 527 - And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
Página 514 - In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbeth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
Página 490 - For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion, 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Página 526 - And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths : none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
Página 470 - Belus230 occupies the other, whose huge gates of brass may still be seen. It is a square building, each side of which is of the length of two furlongs. . In the midst a tower rises, of the solid depth and height of one furlong; upon which, resting as a base, seven other turrets are built in regular succesion. The ascent is on the outside, whichf> winding from the ground, is continued to the highest tower; and in the middle of the whole structure there is a convenient resting-place.
Página 211 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground, where only one grew before, vvould deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 406 - They possess, likewise, a kind of plant, which, instead of fruit, produces wool of a finer and better quality than that of sheep. Of this the Indians make their clothes.
Página 193 - I cannot but think it exceedingly ridiculous to hear some men talk of the circumference of the earth, pretending, without the smallest reason or probability, that the ocean encompasses the earth ; that the earth is round, as if mechanically formed so ; and that Asia is equal to Europe.