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... reason has been alleged to explain the ludicrous fail- ure of French translations of Demosthenes . + Classical translation was a favourite study of the great states- rised the following version : ' It may be said 4 INTRODUCTION .
... reason has been alleged to explain the ludicrous fail- ure of French translations of Demosthenes . + Classical translation was a favourite study of the great states- rised the following version : ' It may be said 4 INTRODUCTION .
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... reason is suggested by the circumstance , that pupils , on entering a new form in a public school , do the same exercises as the rest of the form - and these are often in the middle of a book . CHARACTERISTIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GREEK ...
... reason is suggested by the circumstance , that pupils , on entering a new form in a public school , do the same exercises as the rest of the form - and these are often in the middle of a book . CHARACTERISTIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GREEK ...
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... reason seems paradoxical , the learned colonel * quickly reassures us . ' It is possible , ' says that eminent critic , that the embarrassment which we expe- rience in those long - drawn periods which , in the pages of the best Greek ...
... reason seems paradoxical , the learned colonel * quickly reassures us . ' It is possible , ' says that eminent critic , that the embarrassment which we expe- rience in those long - drawn periods which , in the pages of the best Greek ...
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... reason , too , not every kind of rhythm is appropriate the Heroic he discards as too stately , the Iambic as too familiar , the Trochaic ‡ as too tripping . The Pæon he recommends , because its rhythm is irreducible to metre : the first ...
... reason , too , not every kind of rhythm is appropriate the Heroic he discards as too stately , the Iambic as too familiar , the Trochaic ‡ as too tripping . The Pæon he recommends , because its rhythm is irreducible to metre : the first ...
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... reason , in place of the demonstrative with yàp , e.g. , XEN . Mem . iii . v . 15. πότε γὰρ οὕτως Ἀθηναῖοι , ὥσπερ Λακεδαιμόνιοι , ἢ πρεσβυτέρους αἰδέσονται ; —οἳ ἀπὸ τῶν πατέρων ἄρχονται καταφρονεῖν τῶν πατέρων , κ.τ.λ. It would be ...
... reason , in place of the demonstrative with yàp , e.g. , XEN . Mem . iii . v . 15. πότε γὰρ οὕτως Ἀθηναῖοι , ὥσπερ Λακεδαιμόνιοι , ἢ πρεσβυτέρους αἰδέσονται ; —οἳ ἀπὸ τῶν πατέρων ἄρχονται καταφρονεῖν τῶν πατέρων , κ.τ.λ. It would be ...
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