The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 5Tobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1817 - Books |
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... called Creston , beyond the Tyrrhenians , and who were once neighbours to those now called Dorians , and then inhabited the country which is now called Thessaliotis ; and others of whom , hav- ing been once neighbours to the Athenians ...
... called Creston , beyond the Tyrrhenians , and who were once neighbours to those now called Dorians , and then inhabited the country which is now called Thessaliotis ; and others of whom , hav- ing been once neighbours to the Athenians ...
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... called Crestonia , which , as we learn from Herodotus , * was in Macedonia at the head of the Sinus Thermaïcus , yet we hear of no city called Creston , in any part of the world ; and if we inquire where the Tyrrhenians were to be found ...
... called Crestonia , which , as we learn from Herodotus , * was in Macedonia at the head of the Sinus Thermaïcus , yet we hear of no city called Creston , in any part of the world ; and if we inquire where the Tyrrhenians were to be found ...
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... called , but along the shore of the Propontis , to the Bosphorus of Thrace . Upon the south side of the Hellespont therefore , in the sense in which He- rodotus used the term , that is , upon the south side of the Propontis , stood the ...
... called , but along the shore of the Propontis , to the Bosphorus of Thrace . Upon the south side of the Hellespont therefore , in the sense in which He- rodotus used the term , that is , upon the south side of the Propontis , stood the ...
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... called Histœotis , being expelled thence by the Cadmeans , they dwelt at Macednos in Pindus ; thence again they passed to Dryopis , and having at last come from Dryopis into Peloponnesus , they were called Dorians . " 1 In order to ...
... called Histœotis , being expelled thence by the Cadmeans , they dwelt at Macednos in Pindus ; thence again they passed to Dryopis , and having at last come from Dryopis into Peloponnesus , they were called Dorians . " 1 In order to ...
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... called the Gods EOI , as having founded all things , OENTEE tà πάντα πρήγματα . " Now , " says he , " if the Pelasgi not only called the Gods EOI , but so called them from OEN , the root of Tin , what better evidence can we have , that ...
... called the Gods EOI , as having founded all things , OENTEE tà πάντα πρήγματα . " Now , " says he , " if the Pelasgi not only called the Gods EOI , but so called them from OEN , the root of Tin , what better evidence can we have , that ...
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