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Síða 330 - A Dissertation concerning the War of Troy and the Expedition of the Grecians, as described by Homer, shewing that no such Expedition was ever undertaken, and that no such City of Phrygia existed, oO, oJ (Eton 1796).
Síða 321 - De'iphobus in the under-world — if we are asked whether there was not really some such historical Trojan war as this, our answer must be, that as the possibility of it cannot be denied, so neither can the reality of it be affirmed.
Síða 434 - ... studied falsehood, or have a settled purpose to deceive. They have inquired and considered little, and do not always feel their own ignorance. They are not much accustomed to be interrogated by others; and seem never to have thought upon interrogating themselves; so that if they do not know what they tell to be true, they likewise do not distinctly perceive it to be false. Mr.
Síða 484 - For these, and those causes above mentioned, that which hath received approbation from so many, I have chosen not to omit. Certain or uncertain, be that upon the credit of those whom I must follow ; so far as keeps aloof from impossible and absurd, attested by ancient writers from books more ancient, I refuse not, as the due and proper subject of story.
Síða 369 - Xenophanês disclaimed openly all knowledge respecting the gods, and pronounced that no man could have any means of ascertaining when he was right and when he was wrong, in affirmations respecting them : while Pythagoras represents in part the scientific tendencies of his age, in part also the spirit of mysticism and of special fraternities for religious and ascetic observance, which became diffused throughout Greece in the sixth century before the Christian era...
Síða 484 - Roman, pitched there ;) yet those old and inborn names of successive kings, never any to have been real persons, or done in their lives at least some part of what so long hath been remembered, cannot be thought without too strict an incredulity.
Síða 483 - I am firmly of opinion that it arises solely from the different natures of their original institution, as you may easily collect from what has been said. So the kingdom of England had its original from Brute and the Trojans, who attended him from Italy and Greece, and became a mixed kind of government, compounded of the regal and political.
Síða 429 - Plataea, rain fell on the spot of ground where the city of New York now stands, will neither deserve nor obtain credit, because he can have had no means of positive knowledge; though the statement is not in the slightest degree improbable.
Síða v - ... that the Hellenic race claims " the everlasting remembrance " of those who value the inward Holy Spirit of our Christian faith yet more deeply than they value even the most sacred and imperishable of its outward forms. " To have known the history of a people by whom the first spark was set to the dormant intellectual capacities of our nature...
Síða 367 - Greek poetry towards the present and the positive." 7 Xenophanes, Thales, and Pythagoras, were the three " who in the sixth century before the Christian sera, first opened up those veins of speculative philosophy which occupied afterwards so large a portion of Greek intellectual energy." 8 They first threw off the theological supremacy.9 This went on until Socrates, " who laid open all ethical and social doctrines to the scrutiny of reason.10 "The Milesian Thales...