| 1877 - 798 pages
...on high authority to be almost futile : " If any man is inclined to call the unknown ante - Hellenic period of Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open...is a name carrying with it no assured predicates, noway enlarging our insight into real history."* Yet a historian of equal rank holds a more encouraging... | |
| George Grote - 1846 - 662 pages
...indeed the first inhabitants of the country, but the first known to us upon any tolerable evidence. If any man is inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic...is a name carrying with it no assured predicates, noway enlarging our insight into real history, nor enabling us to explain—what would be the real... | |
| 1848 - 1390 pages
...inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic period of Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open for him to do so ; but this is a name carrying with it...our insight into real history, nor enabling us to explain — what would be the real historical problem — how or from whom the Hellens acquired that... | |
| 1848 - 734 pages
...unceremoniously as if they were so much rubbish. This is his summary method of dispatching them : — " If any man is inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic...period of Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open for him to do so; but this is a name carrying with it no assured predicates, no way enlarging our insight... | |
| 1848 - 722 pages
...they were so much rubbish. This is his summary method of dispatching them : — '• If any man ¡a inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic period of Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open for him to do so ; but this is a name carrying with it no assured predicates, no way enlarging our... | |
| 1852 - 492 pages
...sagacity, has been allured by these " Pelasgi." Grote makes little of them. " If any man," he says, " is inclined to call the unknown anteHellenic period...our insight into real history, nor enabling us to explain — what would be the real historical problem — how or from whom the Hellenes acquired that... | |
| Dawson William Turner - 1853 - 122 pages
...which was afterwards so prolific in works of art and genius.' — Don. NC ANTE-HEX.X.BWXC PERIOD. ' If any man is inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic...is a name carrying with it no assured predicates, noway enlarging our insight into real history, nor enabling us to explain — what would be the real... | |
| 1856 - 594 pages
...who admits, in early Grecian history, some facts which ceem to us to rest on uo sufficient evidence. Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open to him to do so,' * we cannot fail to be reminded of the parliamentary phrase, 'it is open to any honourable ' member,'... | |
| 1856 - 668 pages
...Grote's parliamentary career has not been without its influence upon his composition. When he writes, ' if any man is inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic period of * Indeed Sir G. Cornewall Lewis carries out the principle more consistently than Mr. Grote, who admits,... | |
| 1856 - 590 pages
...Grote's parliamentary career has not been without its influence upon his composition. When he writes, ' if any man is inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic period of * Indeed Sir G. Cornewall Lewis carries out the principle more consistently than Mr. Grote, who admits,... | |
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