The Geography System of Herodotus Examined and Explained, by a Comparison with Those of Other Ancient Authors, and with Modern Geography ...C.J.G. & F. Rivington, 1830 |
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... Distances , and Dimensions - Scope of his geographical Knowledge . As the writings of Herodotus furnish the earliest record of history , among the heathen authors whose works have reached us , so they also furnish the earliest known ...
... Distances , and Dimensions - Scope of his geographical Knowledge . As the writings of Herodotus furnish the earliest record of history , among the heathen authors whose works have reached us , so they also furnish the earliest known ...
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... distance short of noon ; it being in some degree contrasted with it , by our Author . Is not this very extraordinary misapprehension occasioned by the neglect of reducing the time to the meridian of the place ? For , by the difference ...
... distance short of noon ; it being in some degree contrasted with it , by our Author . Is not this very extraordinary misapprehension occasioned by the neglect of reducing the time to the meridian of the place ? For , by the difference ...
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... distance by the road , or by the coasting voyage of a ship , exceeds that by the direct line . And this seems , indeed , to point out the source many of their errors . of Another error of Herodotus was , his taking the Isthmus of Asia ...
... distance by the road , or by the coasting voyage of a ship , exceeds that by the direct line . And this seems , indeed , to point out the source many of their errors . of Another error of Herodotus was , his taking the Isthmus of Asia ...
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... distance was in- tended by the itinerary stade of the Greeks , since their geography appears to have been regulated by this scale . SECTION II . CONCERNING THE ITINERARY STADE OF THE GREEKS 16 1 PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS .
... distance was in- tended by the itinerary stade of the Greeks , since their geography appears to have been regulated by this scale . SECTION II . CONCERNING THE ITINERARY STADE OF THE GREEKS 16 1 PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS .
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... distances - Examples cited from Herodotus , Pau- sanias , Xenophon , Eratosthenes , Strabo , Polybius , Pliny , and Arrian - receives confirmation from a comparison with the mean marches of armies - Paces , the elementary part of iti ...
... distances - Examples cited from Herodotus , Pau- sanias , Xenophon , Eratosthenes , Strabo , Polybius , Pliny , and Arrian - receives confirmation from a comparison with the mean marches of armies - Paces , the elementary part of iti ...
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Página 494 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Página 410 - They possess, likewise, a kind of plant, which, instead of fruit, produces wool of a finer and better quality than that of sheep. Of this the Indians make their clothes.
Página 519 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Página 531 - And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
Página 518 - In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbeth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
Página 530 - And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths : none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
Página 474 - Belus230 occupies the other, whose huge gates of brass may still be seen. It is a square building, each side of which is of the length of two furlongs. . In the midst a tower rises, of the solid depth and height of one furlong; upon which, resting as a base, seven other turrets are built in regular succesion. The ascent is on the outside, whichf> winding from the ground, is continued to the highest tower; and in the middle of the whole structure there is a convenient resting-place.
Página 213 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground, where only one grew before, vvould deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 533 - ... and as it may be concluded, with Tobit's seal on the bags. In the East, in the present times, a bag of money passes (for some time at least) currently from hand to hand, under the authority of a banker's seal, without any examination of its contents.
Página 195 - I cannot but think it exceedingly ridiculous to hear some men talk of the circumference of the earth, pretending, without the smallest reason or probability, that the ocean encompasses the earth ; that the earth is round, as if mechanically formed so ; and that Asia is equal to Europe.