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... correct outline of the coasts of Crete . The soundings are not yet * Appended to " Meursii Creta , " Opera , iii . 143. In Dapper's map ( Description de l'Archipel . p . 385. ) there is neither cape nor bight . Fair Havens and the city ...
... correct outline of the coasts of Crete . The soundings are not yet * Appended to " Meursii Creta , " Opera , iii . 143. In Dapper's map ( Description de l'Archipel . p . 385. ) there is neither cape nor bight . Fair Havens and the city ...
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... correct knowledge of the geography is that of the peculiarities of ancient navigation ; but there is no department of classical antiquity about which we are so much in the dark . I have not met with any modern author on the subject who ...
... correct knowledge of the geography is that of the peculiarities of ancient navigation ; but there is no department of classical antiquity about which we are so much in the dark . I have not met with any modern author on the subject who ...
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... correctly rendered , and even when one is , the reader has no certainty that the meaning is the right one , for he will rarely find two com- mentators agreed in opinion respecting it . We are not , however , to suppose that men of ...
... correctly rendered , and even when one is , the reader has no certainty that the meaning is the right one , for he will rarely find two com- mentators agreed in opinion respecting it . We are not , however , to suppose that men of ...
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... correct in his terminology . Those who trust implicitly to antient authors will not infrequently be led into error , particularly where the object is to arrive at the meaning of tech- nical expressions . The antient scholiasts and ...
... correct in his terminology . Those who trust implicitly to antient authors will not infrequently be led into error , particularly where the object is to arrive at the meaning of tech- nical expressions . The antient scholiasts and ...
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... correct which supposes the author of the Acts to have joined him from Philippi " ( Acts , xvi . 10-40 . ) . There can be no doubt , I appre- hend , that the author of the Acts was with Paul during that portion of the narrative xvi . 10 ...
... correct which supposes the author of the Acts to have joined him from Philippi " ( Acts , xvi . 10-40 . ) . There can be no doubt , I appre- hend , that the author of the Acts was with Paul during that portion of the narrative xvi . 10 ...
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Page 115 - Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. 22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.
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