 | George Barnett Smith - 1879 - 640 pages
...Greeks, it is Homer that furnishes the point of origin from which all distances are to be measured. ' The Mosaic books, and the other historical books of...drawn at large. Their aim is to exhibit it in one master relation, and to do this with effect they do it to a great extent exclusively. The Homeric materials... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 552 pages
...Greeks, it is Homer that furnishes the point of origin from which all distances are to be measured. ' The Mosaic books, and the other historical books of...drawn at large. Their aim is to exhibit it in one master relation, and to do this with effect they do it to a great extent exclusively. The Homeric materials... | |
 | Thomas Wemyss Reid - 1880 - 1224 pages
...Greeks, it is Homer that furnishes the point of origin from which all distances are to be measured. ' The Mosaic books, and the other historical books of...of human society or of our nature drawn at large. • » Historical Essays. By Edward A. Freeman, MA, DCL (Second Series.) Their aim is to exhibit it... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 624 pages
...Greeks, it is Homer that furnishes the point of origin from which all distances are to be measured. ' The Mosaic books, and the other historical books of...of human society or of our nature drawn at large. * Historical Essays. By Edward A. Freeman, MA, DCL (Second Series.) Their aim is to exhibit it in one... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 620 pages
...Greeks, it is Homer that furnishes the point of origin from which all distances are to be measured. ' The Mosaic books, and the other historical books of...of human society or of our nature drawn at large. • * Historical Essays. By Edward A. Freeman, MA, DCL (Second Series.) Their aim is to exhibit it... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1882 - 138 pages
...Greeks, it is Homer that furnishes the point of origin from which all distances are to be measured. ' The Mosaic books, and the other historical books of...and do not present, a picture of human society or of oar nature drawn at large. Their aim is to exhibit it in one master relation, and to do this with effect... | |
 | Richard Briscoe Cook - 1898 - 620 pages
...Homer that furnishes " the point of origin from which all distances are to be measured." He says : " The Mosaic books, and the other historical books of...of human society or of our nature drawn at large. The poems of Homer may be viewed as the complement of the earliest portion of the sacred records."... | |
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But he has an excellent passage pointing out how the one may be regarded as supplementary to the other. Examining the history of the race, as regards the Greeks, it is Homer that furnishes the point of origin from which all distances are to be measured. 