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... writing of the Odyssey - Ulysses ' adven- tures - English translations - Pope's translation - Lord Derby's version ... writers - The growth of the Old Testament - The Prophets - The loss of early documents - The spirit of Hebrew ...
... writing of the Odyssey - Ulysses ' adven- tures - English translations - Pope's translation - Lord Derby's version ... writers - The growth of the Old Testament - The Prophets - The loss of early documents - The spirit of Hebrew ...
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... WRITING , COLLECTED FROM A GREAT NUMBER OF ANCIENT PAINTINGS IN POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM · FACING PAGE 10 10 FACSIMILE OF THE PAPYRUS INSCRIBED With HierogLYPHIC TEXT OF The Book of the Dead 11 Photo : W. A. Mansell & Co. PAPYRUS ...
... WRITING , COLLECTED FROM A GREAT NUMBER OF ANCIENT PAINTINGS IN POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM · FACING PAGE 10 10 FACSIMILE OF THE PAPYRUS INSCRIBED With HierogLYPHIC TEXT OF The Book of the Dead 11 Photo : W. A. Mansell & Co. PAPYRUS ...
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... writers in that form if upon the background of his mind there move the not too shadowy figures , fading from Dickens and Thackeray through Walter Scott and Jane Austen to Fielding and Samuel Richardson , and beyond them to Thomas Lodge ...
... writers in that form if upon the background of his mind there move the not too shadowy figures , fading from Dickens and Thackeray through Walter Scott and Jane Austen to Fielding and Samuel Richardson , and beyond them to Thomas Lodge ...
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... writers , but we remember that the very secret of his honour is that he stands so proudly at the head of a story so wonderful . To know intimately the whole literature even of one language is beyond the industry of a lifetime . But here ...
... writers , but we remember that the very secret of his honour is that he stands so proudly at the head of a story so wonderful . To know intimately the whole literature even of one language is beyond the industry of a lifetime . But here ...
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... writing by three urgent necessities . There were certain things that it was dangerous to forget , and which therefore had to be recorded . It was often necessary to com- municate with persons who were some distance away , and it was ...
... writing by three urgent necessities . There were certain things that it was dangerous to forget , and which therefore had to be recorded . It was often necessary to com- municate with persons who were some distance away , and it was ...
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