The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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... GREECE- GEOGRAPHY . JOHN RAE . HISTORY . Prof. JEBB , H. F. TOZER , and Principal DON- ALDSON . LANGUAGE . A. S. WILKINS , Professor of Latin in Owens , College , Manchester . LITERATURE . Prof. JEBB and Principal Donaldson . GREEK ...
... GREECE- GEOGRAPHY . JOHN RAE . HISTORY . Prof. JEBB , H. F. TOZER , and Principal DON- ALDSON . LANGUAGE . A. S. WILKINS , Professor of Latin in Owens , College , Manchester . LITERATURE . Prof. JEBB and Principal Donaldson . GREEK ...
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... Greece , Austin of the great peoples of modern Europe . The unit of government in the one case was a city , in the other a nation . This difference is of itself enough to invalidate all generalization founded on the common terminology ...
... Greece , Austin of the great peoples of modern Europe . The unit of government in the one case was a city , in the other a nation . This difference is of itself enough to invalidate all generalization founded on the common terminology ...
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... Greece . The king and council of heroic times had disappeared , and self- government in some form or other was the general rule . It is to be noticed , however , that the Governments of Greece were essentially unstable . The political ...
... Greece . The king and council of heroic times had disappeared , and self- government in some form or other was the general rule . It is to be noticed , however , that the Governments of Greece were essentially unstable . The political ...
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... Greece ; and in a people so retentive of all that relates to religion , this implies merely that the worship of the dawn has been changed in out- ward form , Eos is of slight importance ; but Charis , Hebe , ' Aphrodite ( in so far as ...
... Greece ; and in a people so retentive of all that relates to religion , this implies merely that the worship of the dawn has been changed in out- ward form , Eos is of slight importance ; but Charis , Hebe , ' Aphrodite ( in so far as ...
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... Greece and the Terinæan Gulf ( Homer , Od . , i . 181 ) . The trade for long lay chiefly in the hands of the Eubœans ; and Cyme in Campania was founded far back in the pre - historic time , when the Euboean Cyme was still a great city ...
... Greece and the Terinæan Gulf ( Homer , Od . , i . 181 ) . The trade for long lay chiefly in the hands of the Eubœans ; and Cyme in Campania was founded far back in the pre - historic time , when the Euboean Cyme was still a great city ...
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