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Page xcii
But one cannot avoid being furprized at the prodigious veneration for his character , which could engage mankind with fuch eagerness in a point fo little effential ; that Kings should fend to oracles for the enquiry of his birth - place ...
But one cannot avoid being furprized at the prodigious veneration for his character , which could engage mankind with fuch eagerness in a point fo little effential ; that Kings should fend to oracles for the enquiry of his birth - place ...
Page cxiv
... that by often hearing it we should " have a notion of an original enmity between us and those nations ; and that admiring the " virtue of those who fought at Troy , we should " be induced to emulate their glory .
... that by often hearing it we should " have a notion of an original enmity between us and those nations ; and that admiring the " virtue of those who fought at Troy , we should " be induced to emulate their glory .
Page 82
In this " circumstance he proposes to the Princes in council to make " a trial of arming the Grecians , and offers an expedient him" felf ; which was , that he should found their difpofitions " by exhorting them to fet fail for Greece ...
In this " circumstance he proposes to the Princes in council to make " a trial of arming the Grecians , and offers an expedient him" felf ; which was , that he should found their difpofitions " by exhorting them to fet fail for Greece ...
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| Title | The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1 The Iliad of Homer, Alexander Pope |
| Author | Homer |
| Translated by | Alexander Pope |
| Publisher | Charles Rivington, 1760 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Aug 25, 2006 |
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