Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 4W. and R. Chambers, 1868 |
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... Greek mercenaries were sent by Psammitichus I. to recall the Egyptian deserters , and it was garrisoned in the time of the Pharaohs , Persians , and Romans . The island was anciently called Abu , or the ivory island , ' from its having ...
... Greek mercenaries were sent by Psammitichus I. to recall the Egyptian deserters , and it was garrisoned in the time of the Pharaohs , Persians , and Romans . The island was anciently called Abu , or the ivory island , ' from its having ...
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... Greek art in its purest state , yet it was only after very considerable hesitation that government consented to purchase them , and then the sum awarded was not only far short of anything like a fair value , if indeed a value could be ...
... Greek art in its purest state , yet it was only after very considerable hesitation that government consented to purchase them , and then the sum awarded was not only far short of anything like a fair value , if indeed a value could be ...
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... Greek pa , 13 Vict . c . 106 , made punishable by transportation and from the embers or ashes which in the earliest for life . See BANKRUPT . times were strewed over the head at times of fasting , in token of humility and self ...
... Greek pa , 13 Vict . c . 106 , made punishable by transportation and from the embers or ashes which in the earliest for life . See BANKRUPT . times were strewed over the head at times of fasting , in token of humility and self ...
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... Greeks were addicted to emigration , owing , it has been said , to the many political contests which drove the weaker party from home . Greek emigrants planted colonies on the borders of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea , carrying ...
... Greeks were addicted to emigration , owing , it has been said , to the many political contests which drove the weaker party from home . Greek emigrants planted colonies on the borders of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea , carrying ...
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... Greek words , enkyklios , circular or general ; and paideia , discipline or instruction . These words were used by the Greeks and Romans to signify the circle of instruction through which every free - born youth had to pass before ...
... Greek words , enkyklios , circular or general ; and paideia , discipline or instruction . These words were used by the Greeks and Romans to signify the circle of instruction through which every free - born youth had to pass before ...
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