Author: Theodore Edward Dowling
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Category : Greeks
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Hellenism in England
Author: Theodore Edward Dowling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greeks
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greeks
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Hellenism in England; a Short History of the Greek People in This Country from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Author: Theodore Edward Dowling
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230313542
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... HELLENISM IN ENGLAND INTRODUCTION It is with particular pleasure that I comply with the wish of the Authors of this Short History that I should add to it a brief introduction; and this, not only because I thus find myself associated, in a measure, with a treatise which is the outcome of much research, and of a friendly interest in the Country I have the honour to represent, but also because the subject treated is one which occupied my attention for a considerable time past, and led me to accumulate a rich store of information on the relations between Greece and England, and on the history of Greek establishments in Great Britain and Ireland. The pressure of official duties compelled me to postpone the realisation of a somewhat ambitious scheme. It is therefore a source of gratification to find myself unexpectedly called upon to revert, even cursively, to a subject the more exhaustive treatment of which I shall have in view at a time of hoped-for leisure. For the moment, I may add a few items of interest to this first venture into an attractive and, as yet, untrodden bypath of history. And in doing so I shall avoid restating facts already referred to by the Authors. The reader of the following pages will be impressed, at the very outset, by the salient fact that the first scientific explorer of these Islands, the first to give a reliable account of them from personal research and knowledge, was a Greek. Pytheas was a distinguished astronomer, a great and courageous navigator, and a man of acumen and power of observation. He has been styled "the Humboldt of Antiquity."1 He has left it on record that he travelled on foot through Britain; he refers to Ierne (Ireland); he sailed far into the Baltic, thence up the Norwegian coast, to the...
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230313542
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... HELLENISM IN ENGLAND INTRODUCTION It is with particular pleasure that I comply with the wish of the Authors of this Short History that I should add to it a brief introduction; and this, not only because I thus find myself associated, in a measure, with a treatise which is the outcome of much research, and of a friendly interest in the Country I have the honour to represent, but also because the subject treated is one which occupied my attention for a considerable time past, and led me to accumulate a rich store of information on the relations between Greece and England, and on the history of Greek establishments in Great Britain and Ireland. The pressure of official duties compelled me to postpone the realisation of a somewhat ambitious scheme. It is therefore a source of gratification to find myself unexpectedly called upon to revert, even cursively, to a subject the more exhaustive treatment of which I shall have in view at a time of hoped-for leisure. For the moment, I may add a few items of interest to this first venture into an attractive and, as yet, untrodden bypath of history. And in doing so I shall avoid restating facts already referred to by the Authors. The reader of the following pages will be impressed, at the very outset, by the salient fact that the first scientific explorer of these Islands, the first to give a reliable account of them from personal research and knowledge, was a Greek. Pytheas was a distinguished astronomer, a great and courageous navigator, and a man of acumen and power of observation. He has been styled "the Humboldt of Antiquity."1 He has left it on record that he travelled on foot through Britain; he refers to Ierne (Ireland); he sailed far into the Baltic, thence up the Norwegian coast, to the...
Hellenism in England: a Short History of the Greek People in this Country from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, with Seventeen Illustrations ... With an Introduction by ... Joannes Gennadius
Author: Theodore Edward DOWLING (and FLETCHER (Edwin W.))
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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Hellenism in England
Author: Theodore Edward Dowling
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Category : Greeks
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Publisher:
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Category : Greeks
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Ararat
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Category : Armenia
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Category : Armenia
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Politics and the Academy
Author: Richard Clogg
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135175985
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Part of the Politics and the Academy series, this volume looks at Arnold Toynbee and the establishment of the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College, London, with an appendix of Toynbee's letter to The Times newspaper in January 1924.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135175985
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Part of the Politics and the Academy series, this volume looks at Arnold Toynbee and the establishment of the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College, London, with an appendix of Toynbee's letter to The Times newspaper in January 1924.
Monasticism in the Orthodox Churches
Author: Nalbro' Frazier Robinson
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Category : Monasteries, Orthodox Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Category : Monasteries, Orthodox Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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The Librarian and Book World
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Subject Guide to Books
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Contents.--v.1. History, travel & description.
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Contents.--v.1. History, travel & description.