The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 1Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1830 |
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... present he sets sail , and is wafted gently homewards . On the tenth day Ithaca is already in sight , when , overcome with fatigue , he un- luckily falls asleep , and his companions cut the bag , sup- posing it to be filled with ...
... present he sets sail , and is wafted gently homewards . On the tenth day Ithaca is already in sight , when , overcome with fatigue , he un- luckily falls asleep , and his companions cut the bag , sup- posing it to be filled with ...
Side 22
... present day . The author of the Argonautics makes the Tanais and the Phasis branches of the Araxes ; an error of such magnitude as to show that he had no actual knowledge of the regions he describes . Yet these names are , origi- nally ...
... present day . The author of the Argonautics makes the Tanais and the Phasis branches of the Araxes ; an error of such magnitude as to show that he had no actual knowledge of the regions he describes . Yet these names are , origi- nally ...
Side 27
... present day be read with profit and delight . He cannot be too much admired , whether we consider the zeal with which he sought for information , the success which attended his exertions , or the elegance with which he knew how to ...
... present day be read with profit and delight . He cannot be too much admired , whether we consider the zeal with which he sought for information , the success which attended his exertions , or the elegance with which he knew how to ...
Side 28
William Desborough Cooley. consider what a value attached even to fictions in the first days ... modern Servia ; he visited the Greek colonies in the Euxine , and even ... days , at a very advanced age . Herodotus made great accessions to the ...
William Desborough Cooley. consider what a value attached even to fictions in the first days ... modern Servia ; he visited the Greek colonies in the Euxine , and even ... days , at a very advanced age . Herodotus made great accessions to the ...
Side 36
... present day . Egypt he made his particular study ; he examined it in its whole length as far as the cataracts of the ... days in this way a great plain is reached , and an island formed by the branches of the Nile , of which the ...
... present day . Egypt he made his particular study ; he examined it in its whole length as far as the cataracts of the ... days in this way a great plain is reached , and an island formed by the branches of the Nile , of which the ...
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The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 1 William Desborough Cooley Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1833 |
The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 1 William Desborough Cooley Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1830 |
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