The Critical Review, Or, Annals of LiteratureTobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1802 |
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... Egypt , for instance , is neither in Asia nor Africa ; nor have geographers ever started the question , to which it belongs ; and this led us , some time since , to propose the Nile as the limits between these two quarters . In Europe ...
... Egypt , for instance , is neither in Asia nor Africa ; nor have geographers ever started the question , to which it belongs ; and this led us , some time since , to propose the Nile as the limits between these two quarters . In Europe ...
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... Egypt either a traveler or an ho- nourable exile , obnoxious to the favourite of Domitian ; may be generally admitted . To ascertain chronologically the events of his life , or the order of his compositions , the unsatisfactory memorial ...
... Egypt either a traveler or an ho- nourable exile , obnoxious to the favourite of Domitian ; may be generally admitted . To ascertain chronologically the events of his life , or the order of his compositions , the unsatisfactory memorial ...
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... Egypt , were derived from the neighbouring and more ancient country Babylon . From a comparative view of the age of the first Egyptian py- ramid and obelisk , as recorded by Herodotus and Diodorus , with the obelisk of Semiramis , the ...
... Egypt , were derived from the neighbouring and more ancient country Babylon . From a comparative view of the age of the first Egyptian py- ramid and obelisk , as recorded by Herodotus and Diodorus , with the obelisk of Semiramis , the ...
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... Egypt , that is to say , on the road to Chaldea . At any rate , it seems that both the obelisks and pyramids in Egypt were an imitation of the two most antient monuments of this kind with which we are ac- quainted , those of Old Babylon ...
... Egypt , that is to say , on the road to Chaldea . At any rate , it seems that both the obelisks and pyramids in Egypt were an imitation of the two most antient monuments of this kind with which we are ac- quainted , those of Old Babylon ...
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... Egypt , found at Suez - afford presumptions of their being properly Persian , will there be aught contradictory to evidence in admitting that the bricks brought from Babylon were the work of Persians , after the overthrow , by Cyrus ...
... Egypt , found at Suez - afford presumptions of their being properly Persian , will there be aught contradictory to evidence in admitting that the bricks brought from Babylon were the work of Persians , after the overthrow , by Cyrus ...
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