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... hundred pages gives a serviceable epitome of classical literature , quite enough to supply a general notion of its scope and character , and twenty times more than the ordinary public school - boy or university pass- man ever knows ...
... hundred pages gives a serviceable epitome of classical literature , quite enough to supply a general notion of its scope and character , and twenty times more than the ordinary public school - boy or university pass- man ever knows ...
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... hundred years before the Christian era . It passes over the carrying way of Helen , wife of Mene- laus , King of Sparta , by Paris , the son of Priam , King of Troy ; the outraged Monarch's appeal to his brother Aga- memnon , King of ...
... hundred years before the Christian era . It passes over the carrying way of Helen , wife of Mene- laus , King of Sparta , by Paris , the son of Priam , King of Troy ; the outraged Monarch's appeal to his brother Aga- memnon , King of ...
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... hundred years , but men gave not to the deities due re- spect , and , when earth hid them , they did not attain to im- mortality . Still more degenerate was the brazen age , — ' They by each other's hands inglorious fell , In horrid ...
... hundred years , but men gave not to the deities due re- spect , and , when earth hid them , they did not attain to im- mortality . Still more degenerate was the brazen age , — ' They by each other's hands inglorious fell , In horrid ...
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... hundred years after his death . From them we learn that he was born at Thebes , or an adjacent village , about 552 B.C. His family , we are told , excelled in flute- playing , the national art of Boeotia , and he himself boasts , in one ...
... hundred years after his death . From them we learn that he was born at Thebes , or an adjacent village , about 552 B.C. His family , we are told , excelled in flute- playing , the national art of Boeotia , and he himself boasts , in one ...
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... hundred and fifty monarchs , whose names were read from a roll , and respecting whom he narrates several curious legends . Among their successors was Cheops , who built the pyramids , which employed a hundred thousand men at a time for ...
... hundred and fifty monarchs , whose names were read from a roll , and respecting whom he narrates several curious legends . Among their successors was Cheops , who built the pyramids , which employed a hundred thousand men at a time for ...
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