The North American Review, Volume 41Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1835 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... writer of the article . In a recent anonymous British notice of Sir James's " Life , Writings and Speeches , " pre- fixed to the fragment of his history of the Revolution of 1688 , we find the following allusion to these memoranda ...
... writer of the article . In a recent anonymous British notice of Sir James's " Life , Writings and Speeches , " pre- fixed to the fragment of his history of the Revolution of 1688 , we find the following allusion to these memoranda ...
Page 254
... writer imagines , an outrageous absurdity and a foolish paradox , is an historical fact of public notoriety . If he had proceeded as far in his classical studies as the title of the first book of the Iliad he would have found it num ...
... writer imagines , an outrageous absurdity and a foolish paradox , is an historical fact of public notoriety . If he had proceeded as far in his classical studies as the title of the first book of the Iliad he would have found it num ...
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... writer calls the foolish paradox , that the Homeric poems , pre- viously to their collection into their present form by Pisistratus , had existed for centuries in that of " unconnected rhapsodies recited through the cities of Greece ...
... writer calls the foolish paradox , that the Homeric poems , pre- viously to their collection into their present form by Pisistratus , had existed for centuries in that of " unconnected rhapsodies recited through the cities of Greece ...
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