| Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 σελίδες
...translation of Plutarch, is stiH woi3O ' speaking of the Greeks under Alexander, the author says, " Thf.jr march was through an uncultivated country, whose savage...hardly, having no other riches than a breed of lean shccj', whose flesh was rank and unsavory, by reason of their continual It. Riling upon sea-fish."... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1839 - 316 σελίδες
...translation of Plutarch, is still •worse ' speaking of the Greeks under Alexander, the author says, " Thtir march was through an uncultivated country, whose savage...continual feeding upon sea-fish." Here the scene is changed upon us again and again. The march of the Greeks, the description of the inhabitants through... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1839 - 702 σελίδες
...still worse : " Their march," says the author, speaking of the Greeks under Alexander, " their inarch was through an uncultivated country, whose savage...than a breed of lean sheep, whose flesh was rank and unsavoury, by reason of their continual feeding upon sea-fish." Here the scene is changed upon us again... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - 314 σελίδες
...translation of Plutarch, is still worse i speaking of the Greeks under Alexander, the author says, " Their march was through an uncultivated country, whose...fared hardly, having no other riches than a breed of loan sheep, whose flesh was rank and unsavory, by reason of their continual feeding upon sea-fish."... | |
| Hugh Doherty - 1841 - 254 σελίδες
...of direct relativeness is still more remarkable in the following sentence: " The march of the Greeks was through an uncultivated country, whose savage...than a breed of lean sheep, whose flesh was rank and unsavoury, by reason of their continued feeding upon sea-fish." These ideas ought to occupy at least... | |
| Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1848 - 116 σελίδες
...change in the order of circumstances by which the period comes to its close. " The march of the Greeks was through an uncultivated country, whose savage...than a breed of lean sheep, whose flesh was rank and unsavoury, by reason of their continual feeding upon sea-fish." Instead of endeavouring to re-marshal... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1854 - 1314 σελίδες
...Plutarch, is still worse : ' Theii march,' says the author, speaking of the Greeks under Alexander, * their march was through an uncultivated country, whose...hardly, having no other riches than a breed of lean cheep, whose flesh was rank and unsavoury, by reason of their continual feeding upon sea-fish.' Here... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - 1857 - 470 σελίδες
...translation of Plutarch, is still worse Speaking of the Greeks, under Alexander, the author says:— " Their march was through an uncultivated country, whose...continual feeding upon sea-fish." Here the scene is changed again and again. The march of the tloiia In a sentence from place to place or from person to... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 σελίδες
...me on shore, where I was welcomed by all my friends, who received me with the greatest kindness." " Their march was through an uncultivated country, whose...than a breed of lean sheep, whose flesh, was rank and unsavoury, by reason of their continual feeding upon sea-fish." " He is supposed to have fallen, by... | |
| Maurice D. Kavanagh - 1859 - 202 σελίδες
...following sentences as arise from crowding into one sentence ideas which have but little connection : — Their march was through an uncultivated country, whose...than a breed of lean sheep, whose flesh was rank and unsavoury, by reason of their continual feeding upon sea-fish. The notions of Lord Sunderland were... | |
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