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... taken from the Greek original ; secondly , that tho English language was then unpolished , and far from tho perfection which it has sinco attained ; so that the first version is not only ungrammatical and ungraceful , but in many places ...
... taken from the Greek original ; secondly , that tho English language was then unpolished , and far from tho perfection which it has sinco attained ; so that the first version is not only ungrammatical and ungraceful , but in many places ...
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... taken as a literal statement , and probably means that he was not skilled in it as a spoken tongue , for we can scarcely imagine that he was without acquaintance with it when he first went to Rome , Bome and he literature of Rome . In ...
... taken as a literal statement , and probably means that he was not skilled in it as a spoken tongue , for we can scarcely imagine that he was without acquaintance with it when he first went to Rome , Bome and he literature of Rome . In ...
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... taken as hostages , Theseus returned him a gentle answer , beg- ging for the life of Dadalus , who was his own cousin and blood relation , being the son of Merope , the daughter of Erechtheus . But he busied himself with building a ...
... taken as hostages , Theseus returned him a gentle answer , beg- ging for the life of Dadalus , who was his own cousin and blood relation , being the son of Merope , the daughter of Erechtheus . But he busied himself with building a ...
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... taken to Naxos by his sailors , and there dwelt with Enarus , tho priest of Dionysus , having been deserted by Theseus , who was in love with another . " For Ægle's love disturbed his breast . " This line , we are told by IIercas of ...
... taken to Naxos by his sailors , and there dwelt with Enarus , tho priest of Dionysus , having been deserted by Theseus , who was in love with another . " For Ægle's love disturbed his breast . " This line , we are told by IIercas of ...
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... taken care of , and some of them wore buried there , at what is now called the Amazoncum . However , it is a proof of the war having ended in a treaty of peace , that the place near the temple of Theseus where they swore to observe it ...
... taken care of , and some of them wore buried there , at what is now called the Amazoncum . However , it is a proof of the war having ended in a treaty of peace , that the place near the temple of Theseus where they swore to observe it ...
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