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... true time , nor indeed were they wrong at all if a tradition mentioned by Plutarch be correct . " May I be permitted , Sir William , to ask you , ( says our author ) of what nation do you think these astronomers were ? Do you suppose ...
... true time , nor indeed were they wrong at all if a tradition mentioned by Plutarch be correct . " May I be permitted , Sir William , to ask you , ( says our author ) of what nation do you think these astronomers were ? Do you suppose ...
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... Cycle , who measured an arc of the meridian , and the distances of our earth from the sun and the moon , and who ascertained so nearly the true length of the solar year , were assuredly 14 [ August , Higgins ' Celtic Druids .
... Cycle , who measured an arc of the meridian , and the distances of our earth from the sun and the moon , and who ascertained so nearly the true length of the solar year , were assuredly 14 [ August , Higgins ' Celtic Druids .
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the true length of the solar year , were assuredly people who preceded the Druids , but bequeathed to them no part of their mantle , when they disappeared from the earth ; for there is no evidence that the Druids possessed this ...
the true length of the solar year , were assuredly people who preceded the Druids , but bequeathed to them no part of their mantle , when they disappeared from the earth ; for there is no evidence that the Druids possessed this ...
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... true of all early accounts . There is no certainty belonging to them ; nothing that will serve as a ground work of safe and assured conclusion . As Voltaire says , we are like Ixion , we are in expectation of embracing truth , and we ...
... true of all early accounts . There is no certainty belonging to them ; nothing that will serve as a ground work of safe and assured conclusion . As Voltaire says , we are like Ixion , we are in expectation of embracing truth , and we ...
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... true . Abaris . ( p . 123. ) Called Scythian by Suidas , but from the accounts of him by Hecateus in Diod . Sic . ( lib . iii . ch . 11 , ) and by Porphyry in his Life of Pythagoras , and by Jamblichus , ( lib . i . ch . 28 , ) he was ...
... true . Abaris . ( p . 123. ) Called Scythian by Suidas , but from the accounts of him by Hecateus in Diod . Sic . ( lib . iii . ch . 11 , ) and by Porphyry in his Life of Pythagoras , and by Jamblichus , ( lib . i . ch . 28 , ) he was ...
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