A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Cook's Hesiod. Fawke's Theocritus. Anacreon. Bion. Moschus. Sappho. Musaeus & Apollonius Rhodius. The Rape of Helen. Creech's Lucretius and Grainger's TibullusJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1795 |
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Page 10
... called the neceffaries , or abundance of life ; and thofe are called fubtle , who were folicitous after the abund . ance of life ) , the god created a great evil , which was Pandora , that is Fortune , who was endowed with all the gifts ...
... called the neceffaries , or abundance of life ; and thofe are called fubtle , who were folicitous after the abund . ance of life ) , the god created a great evil , which was Pandora , that is Fortune , who was endowed with all the gifts ...
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... called from the Byb- lian bills . This is mentioned in the catalogue of wines which Philinus gives us ; viz . the Lesbian , Chian , Thafian , Byblian , and Mendaan . Theo- critus , in his fourteenth Idyllium , calls it the fine ...
... called from the Byb- lian bills . This is mentioned in the catalogue of wines which Philinus gives us ; viz . the Lesbian , Chian , Thafian , Byblian , and Mendaan . Theo- critus , in his fourteenth Idyllium , calls it the fine ...
Page 53
... called a deity , because he animadverts on the vices both of men and gods ; but why is he called the fon of Night ? Because cenfure and back- bitings are generally fpread privately , and as in the dark . His name is from Moum or Mom ...
... called a deity , because he animadverts on the vices both of men and gods ; but why is he called the fon of Night ? Because cenfure and back- bitings are generally fpread privately , and as in the dark . His name is from Moum or Mom ...
Page 55
... called in the days of Homer , but Egyptus . This argument can- not prevail , when we confider the word in the radix , which , fays Le Clerc , is nubhul and rhbil , and in Hebrew nabbal , which is the common name for any river ; Hefiod ...
... called in the days of Homer , but Egyptus . This argument can- not prevail , when we confider the word in the radix , which , fays Le Clerc , is nubhul and rhbil , and in Hebrew nabbal , which is the common name for any river ; Hefiod ...
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... called the mouth of God ; and , to fay we confult the mouth of God , is the fame as to fay we confult the oracle . Latona , in Greek , Leto , the fame critic derives from lout , or lito or leto , which is to use magic charms ; therefore ...
... called the mouth of God ; and , to fay we confult the mouth of God , is the fame as to fay we confult the oracle . Latona , in Greek , Leto , the fame critic derives from lout , or lito or leto , which is to use magic charms ; therefore ...
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