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Side vi
... reached by the West . - · 45 CHAP . V. GREEKS CONTINUED . 1 Expedition of Alexander . — Policy of that Conqueror . - - - - Enters India . - Remarks Resolves to explore the Persian Gulf . - The March down the Indus . - Næarchus embarks ...
... reached by the West . - · 45 CHAP . V. GREEKS CONTINUED . 1 Expedition of Alexander . — Policy of that Conqueror . - - - - Enters India . - Remarks Resolves to explore the Persian Gulf . - The March down the Indus . - Næarchus embarks ...
Side 4
... reached the highest degree of com- mercial opulence when the first dawn of social polity was only commencing in Greece . Damascus , one of the oldest cities in the world , remains as a moniíment of the first inhabitants . The great ...
... reached the highest degree of com- mercial opulence when the first dawn of social polity was only commencing in Greece . Damascus , one of the oldest cities in the world , remains as a moniíment of the first inhabitants . The great ...
Side 7
... Arabia the early Hebrews were well acquainted ; but towards the West their knowledge hardly reached as far as the shores of Greece . The cosmological ideas scattered through the scrip- tures are few B 4 CHAP . I. 7 THE HEBREWS .
... Arabia the early Hebrews were well acquainted ; but towards the West their knowledge hardly reached as far as the shores of Greece . The cosmological ideas scattered through the scrip- tures are few B 4 CHAP . I. 7 THE HEBREWS .
Side 9
... reached India from the Red Sea . Phoenicians piloted the ships of Solomon in their three years ' voyages to Tarshish . The great length of time required for these voyages betrays the timid progress of early navi- gation , and may ...
... reached India from the Red Sea . Phoenicians piloted the ships of Solomon in their three years ' voyages to Tarshish . The great length of time required for these voyages betrays the timid progress of early navi- gation , and may ...
Side 15
... reached him , and the account of the Cyclops is too true a picture of savage life to allow us to suppose it a mere sketch of fancy . The picture of men who , " relying on the gods for subsistence , neither sow nor reap ; who live in ...
... reached him , and the account of the Cyclops is too true a picture of savage life to allow us to suppose it a mere sketch of fancy . The picture of men who , " relying on the gods for subsistence , neither sow nor reap ; who live in ...
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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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