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However , if we can imagine that there may be any thing of truth in the main parts of this treatise , we may gather thefe general obfervations from it : that he fhewed a great thirst after knowledge , by undertaking fuch long and ...
However , if we can imagine that there may be any thing of truth in the main parts of this treatise , we may gather thefe general obfervations from it : that he fhewed a great thirst after knowledge , by undertaking fuch long and ...
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fuppofe him to have looked back into the ages paft , to fee if at any time thefe diforders had been lefs ; and to have pitched upon that story , wherein they found a temporary cure ; that by celebrating it with all poffible honour he ...
fuppofe him to have looked back into the ages paft , to fee if at any time thefe diforders had been lefs ; and to have pitched upon that story , wherein they found a temporary cure ; that by celebrating it with all poffible honour he ...
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A Godlike race of Heroes once I knew , 345 Such , as no more thefe aged eyes fhall view ! Lives there a chief to match Pirithous ' fame , Dryas the bold , or Ceneus ' deathless name ; Thefeus , endu'd with more than mortal might ...
A Godlike race of Heroes once I knew , 345 Such , as no more thefe aged eyes fhall view ! Lives there a chief to match Pirithous ' fame , Dryas the bold , or Ceneus ' deathless name ; Thefeus , endu'd with more than mortal might ...
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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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