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Page xvi
... hundred Books of them , and that the Example of Chryfippus fhould not be alledged in the Cafe , feeing the Books of that Philofopher were ufeful to human Life ? Was not he jealous of the Poet Lucan , and did not he forbid him to make ...
... hundred Books of them , and that the Example of Chryfippus fhould not be alledged in the Cafe , feeing the Books of that Philofopher were ufeful to human Life ? Was not he jealous of the Poet Lucan , and did not he forbid him to make ...
Page xvii
... the thirtieth Year of his Age . St. Ferom's Miftake is not fo great , tho ' he is not fo exact as he ought to be . He fays that Perfus was born in the a fecond fecond Year of the two hundred and third Olympiad , PERSIU S. xvii.
... the thirtieth Year of his Age . St. Ferom's Miftake is not fo great , tho ' he is not fo exact as he ought to be . He fays that Perfus was born in the a fecond fecond Year of the two hundred and third Olympiad , PERSIU S. xvii.
Page xviii
... hundred and tenth Olympiad ; which cannot be true , but by reckoning his Birth to happen in the first Months of the ... hundred and eighty - fixth of Rome ; the other in the Year of Chrift 62 , the eighth of Nero , and the eight hundred ...
... hundred and tenth Olympiad ; which cannot be true , but by reckoning his Birth to happen in the first Months of the ... hundred and eighty - fixth of Rome ; the other in the Year of Chrift 62 , the eighth of Nero , and the eight hundred ...
Page xix
... hundred and third Olympiad , in the Year of Rome seven hundred and twenty five , and in the twenty fecond Year of Tibe rius's Reign . ( H ) Whatever his Panegyrifts may say he wrote obfcurely . ] Among the number of those I reckon Ifaac ...
... hundred and third Olympiad , in the Year of Rome seven hundred and twenty five , and in the twenty fecond Year of Tibe rius's Reign . ( H ) Whatever his Panegyrifts may say he wrote obfcurely . ] Among the number of those I reckon Ifaac ...
Page xx
... hundred Volumes of the Bishop of Bellay . This agrees pretty well with the two Latin Verfes : Sæpius in libro memoratur Perfius uno , Quam levis in tota Marfus Amazonide . Martial . Epigr . xxix . lib . iv . And with these Words of ...
... hundred Volumes of the Bishop of Bellay . This agrees pretty well with the two Latin Verfes : Sæpius in libro memoratur Perfius uno , Quam levis in tota Marfus Amazonide . Martial . Epigr . xxix . lib . iv . And with these Words of ...
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