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... earliest history of Egypt must be gathered from monumental sources . But inscriptions are dry and inadequate sources , for they are not invested with descriptive expression and interpretative imagination . Indeed , until the time of the ...
... earliest history of Egypt must be gathered from monumental sources . But inscriptions are dry and inadequate sources , for they are not invested with descriptive expression and interpretative imagination . Indeed , until the time of the ...
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... earliest sources of Ottoman history of which he found the origi- nals were eight works , all written in the fifteenth or sixteenth century , and therefore relating only tradition so far as the earliest period of Ottoman history is ...
... earliest sources of Ottoman history of which he found the origi- nals were eight works , all written in the fifteenth or sixteenth century , and therefore relating only tradition so far as the earliest period of Ottoman history is ...
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... earliest times a selective process was perpetually at work , eliminating all that was not most interesting and most representative . Again , the frame of this Icelandic literature was as remarkable as its spirit . The early literature ...
... earliest times a selective process was perpetually at work , eliminating all that was not most interesting and most representative . Again , the frame of this Icelandic literature was as remarkable as its spirit . The early literature ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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