The Quarterly Review, Volume 5William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1811 - English literature |
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... according to the usual computation , three generations to a century , sixteen genera- tions will take about 533 years ; whence we shall have the death of Ajax about ( 560 + 533 ) 1093 years before our æra . Therefore we may say that ...
... according to the usual computation , three generations to a century , sixteen genera- tions will take about 533 years ; whence we shall have the death of Ajax about ( 560 + 533 ) 1093 years before our æra . Therefore we may say that ...
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... according to some of the ancient writers , Inachus , king of Argos , or his son Phoroneus , was the earliest Grecian mo- narch , while , by others , we are confidently presented with a for- mal list of six or seven successive kings ...
... according to some of the ancient writers , Inachus , king of Argos , or his son Phoroneus , was the earliest Grecian mo- narch , while , by others , we are confidently presented with a for- mal list of six or seven successive kings ...
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... been disputed ; but the error charged on it is not such as would materially affect it in practice . A 4 practice . According to a learned living chronologer , Dr. 1811. Clavier - Histore des premiers Temps de la Grèce .
... been disputed ; but the error charged on it is not such as would materially affect it in practice . A 4 practice . According to a learned living chronologer , Dr. 1811. Clavier - Histore des premiers Temps de la Grèce .
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... According to a learned living chronologer , Dr. Hales , the average length of reigns is about 22 years ; an amount not very discrepant from the standard assigned by Newton , though we could in our turn object to some of the data from ...
... According to a learned living chronologer , Dr. Hales , the average length of reigns is about 22 years ; an amount not very discrepant from the standard assigned by Newton , though we could in our turn object to some of the data from ...
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... According to the date assigned to that event , even by the vulgar chronology , it preceded the time of David by little more than a century ; and it very distinctly appears from the sacred books that , at a period anterior to that of ...
... According to the date assigned to that event , even by the vulgar chronology , it preceded the time of David by little more than a century ; and it very distinctly appears from the sacred books that , at a period anterior to that of ...
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