 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1882 - 856 pages
...main features undoubtedly genuine. In the case of these two stories, indeed, I have, I think, shown that in the form in which they have come down to us they have lost something from an earlier tradition, the traces of which still remain distinctly visible.... | |
 | Herodotus, George William Cox - Greece - 1861 - 498 pages
...their having been given at the time to which they are referred, or, at the least, that they were given in the form in which they have come down to us. They may indeed, be classified under several heads, and they carry with them very different degrees of credibility.... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1861 - 514 pages
...their having been given at the time to which they are referred, or, at the least, that they were given in the form in which they have come down to us. They may indeed, be classified under several heads, and they carry with them very different degrees of credibility.... | |
 | George William Cox - Greece - 1874 - 690 pages
...their having been given at the time to which they are referred, or, at the least, that they were given in the form in which they have come down to us. They may indeed be classified under several heads, and they carry with them very different degrees of credibility.... | |
 | English literature - 1875 - 632 pages
...unchronological as our Gospels are, while the question is still earnestly debated by devout critics whether, in the form in which they have come down to us, they are the actual compositions of those whose names they bear, and while the highest theological wisdom is... | |
 | English literature - 1875 - 630 pages
...unchronological as our Gospels are, while the question is still earnestly debated by devout critics whether, in the form in which they have come down to us, they are the actual compositions of those whose names they bear, and while the highest theological wisdom is... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1876 - 572 pages
...questions and relations — will find that the two latter are pervaded by a very different spirit. In the form in which they have come down to us, they indeed likewise appear somewhat dry and sketchy ; we find, apart from the corrupt VOL. n. Y state of... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Folklore - 1882 - 368 pages
...seem to have been the preservation of ancient mythological fictions and historical traditions. But in the form in which they have come down to us they do something more than this. They comprehend, more or less thoroughly, the five following subjects... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 922 pages
...rest by mutual intelligibility, and sharply marked off from the jabbering and inarticulate Papftapoi who surrounded them. The earliest written records...the same time the most precious common possession <ft this great nationality, the poems that bear the name of Homer. It is possible indeed that, in the... | |
 | Emil Schürer - Apocryphal books (Old Testament) - 1890 - 500 pages
...in the Aramaic translations or the Targums. They too, therefore, are to be mentioned here, although in the form in which they have come down to us they are probably to be dated about one hundred years after the time of Christ. Finally, as the residuum of... | |
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