...on high authority to be almost futile : " If any man is inclined to call the unknown ante - Hellenic period of Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open...predicates, noway enlarging our insight into real history."* Yet a historian of equal rank holds a more encouraging view : " There are several questions relating...

...indeed the first inhabitants of the country, but the first known to us upon any tolerable evidence. If any man is inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic...our insight into real history, nor enabling us to explain—what would be the real historical problem—how or from whom the Hellens acquired that stock...

...unceremoniously as if they were so much rubbish. This is his summary method of dispatching them : — " If any man is inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic...period of Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open for him to do so; but this is a name carrying with it no assured predicates, no way enlarging our insight...

...they were so much rubbish. This is his summary method of dispatching them : — '• If any man ¡a inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic period of Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open for him to do so ; but this is a name carrying with it no assured predicates, no way enlarging our...

...inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic period of Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open for him to do so ; but this is a name carrying with it no assured predicates, no way enlarging our insight into real history, nor enabling us to explain — what would be the real...

...sagacity, has been allured by these " Pelasgi." Grote makes little of them. " If any man," he says, " is inclined to call the unknown anteHellenic period...is a name carrying with it no assured predicates, no way enlarging our insight into real history, nor enabling us to explain — what would be the real...

...indeed, the first inhabitants of the country, but the first known to us upon any tolerable evidence. If any man is inclined to call the unknown anteHellenic...real history, nor enabling us to explain — what wrould be the real historical problem — how or from whom the Hellens acquired that stock of dispositions,...

...who admits, in early Grecian history, some facts which ceem to us to rest on uo sufficient evidence. Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open to him to do so,' * we cannot fail to be reminded of the parliamentary phrase, 'it is open to any honourable ' member,'...

...Grote's parliamentary career has not been without its influence upon his composition. When he writes, ' if any man is inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic period of * Indeed Sir G. Cornewall Lewis carries out the principle more consistently than Mr. Grote, who admits,...

...Grote's parliamentary career has not been without its influence upon his composition. When he writes, ' if any man is inclined to call the unknown ante-Hellenic period of * Indeed Sir G. Cornewall Lewis carries out the principle more consistently than Mr. Grote, who admits,...