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Nay , the very paffages which cause us to tax them at this distance with being fabulous , might be occafioned by their diligence , and a fear of erring , if they too hastily rejected those reports which had paffed current in the nations ...
Nay , the very paffages which cause us to tax them at this distance with being fabulous , might be occafioned by their diligence , and a fear of erring , if they too hastily rejected those reports which had paffed current in the nations ...
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One may take notice here , that it were to be wished some paffage were found in any authentick author , that might tell us the time of the year when the Ethiopians kept this festival at Diofpolis : for from thence one might determine ...
One may take notice here , that it were to be wished some paffage were found in any authentick author , that might tell us the time of the year when the Ethiopians kept this festival at Diofpolis : for from thence one might determine ...
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Sixthly , the agreeable mixture of narrations from paffages of history or fables , with which he amufes and relieves ... most noted promontory of Greece ( he means that of Aulis , where was the narrowest paffage · { 1 " 1 " to Eubea ) .
Sixthly , the agreeable mixture of narrations from paffages of history or fables , with which he amufes and relieves ... most noted promontory of Greece ( he means that of Aulis , where was the narrowest paffage · { 1 " 1 " to Eubea ) .
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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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