The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 1. köideLittle, Brown, 1902 |
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Page xi
... existence of a highly developed civilization for a period exceeding by hundreds , perhaps by thousands , of years the term which had hitherto been considered the full period of man's existence . We may note at once how these new figures ...
... existence of a highly developed civilization for a period exceeding by hundreds , perhaps by thousands , of years the term which had hitherto been considered the full period of man's existence . We may note at once how these new figures ...
Page xv
... existence of Homer , and at one time the main current of scholarly opinion had set strongly in the direction of the belief that the Iliad and the Odyssey were in reality but latter - day collections of divers recitals that had been ...
... existence of Homer , and at one time the main current of scholarly opinion had set strongly in the direction of the belief that the Iliad and the Odyssey were in reality but latter - day collections of divers recitals that had been ...
Page xvi
... existence not to be hoped for elsewhere . No fragment of these papyri , indeed , carries us further back than the age of the Ptolemies ; but the Greek inscriptions on the statues of Rameses II . at Abu - Simbel , in Nubia , give ...
... existence not to be hoped for elsewhere . No fragment of these papyri , indeed , carries us further back than the age of the Ptolemies ; but the Greek inscriptions on the statues of Rameses II . at Abu - Simbel , in Nubia , give ...
Page xvii
... existence , as it seems to do in the records of the historian . But the excavations that have given us a knowledge of the Mycenæan Age have proved conclusively , not alone that civilization existed in Greece in an early day , but that ...
... existence , as it seems to do in the records of the historian . But the excavations that have given us a knowledge of the Mycenæan Age have proved conclusively , not alone that civilization existed in Greece in an early day , but that ...
Page xxii
... existence in 1886. In 1890 a new institution of the same name ( see separate heading below ) was incorporated under the laws of Illinois , and was opened on 1st October 1892. Schools of law and medicine include those connected with the ...
... existence in 1886. In 1890 a new institution of the same name ( see separate heading below ) was incorporated under the laws of Illinois , and was opened on 1st October 1892. Schools of law and medicine include those connected with the ...
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