Greek history from Themistocles to Alexander, in a ser. of lives from Plutarch, revised and arranged by A.H. CloughArthur Hugh Clough Longman & Company, 1860 - 481 pages |
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... taken - thus , there are twelve senses to the word match , all of course to be translated differently . It gives with French verbs the prepositions required after their infinitives or adjectives ; it illustrates idioms ; it gives the ...
... taken - thus , there are twelve senses to the word match , all of course to be translated differently . It gives with French verbs the prepositions required after their infinitives or adjectives ; it illustrates idioms ; it gives the ...
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... taken to pieces , and the bits , carefully preserved , put to- gether again upon another design . This may be saying too much . But certainly there is a great tradition of ancient history , which Plutarch very fairly represents , which ...
... taken to pieces , and the bits , carefully preserved , put to- gether again upon another design . This may be saying too much . But certainly there is a great tradition of ancient history , which Plutarch very fairly represents , which ...
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... taken , with permission , from the edition lately published in America by Messrs . Little and Brown , of Boston . * These are revised from the second English translation , made by various hands . Of the lives in the present volume ...
... taken , with permission , from the edition lately published in America by Messrs . Little and Brown , of Boston . * These are revised from the second English translation , made by various hands . Of the lives in the present volume ...
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... taken her way before them towards the And he often urged them with the oracle * which bade them trust to walls of wood , showing them that walls of wood could signify nothing else but ships ; and that the island of Salamis was termed in ...
... taken her way before them towards the And he often urged them with the oracle * which bade them trust to walls of wood , showing them that walls of wood could signify nothing else but ships ; and that the island of Salamis was termed in ...
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... taken the bold- ness to speak concerning them . For the favours shown to other strangers were nothing in comparison with the honours conferred on him ; the king invited him to par- take of his own pastimes and recreations both at home ...
... taken the bold- ness to speak concerning them . For the favours shown to other strangers were nothing in comparison with the honours conferred on him ; the king invited him to par- take of his own pastimes and recreations both at home ...
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