Tookes Pantheon Of The Heathen Gods And Illustrious Heroes Revised For A Classical Course

Author : François Pomey
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ISBN 13 : 9781330602614
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Tooke's Pantheon of the Heathen Gods, and Illustrious Heroes written by François Pomey and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tooke's Pantheon of the Heathen Gods, and Illustrious Heroes: Revised for a Classical Course of Education, and Adapted for the Use of Students of Every Age and of Either Sex It is confessed that there arc already many books published on the present subject, two or three of which arc in our own tongue; and those, without doubt, will, by some men, be thought enough. But since this can be the opinion but of a few, and those unexperienced people, it has been judged more proper to regard the advice of many grave persons of known skill in the art of teaching; who, though they must acknowledge that Goodwin, in his Antiquities, has done very well in the whole, yet cannot but own that he has been too short in this point: that Rosse also, though he deserves commendation for his Mythology, is yet very tedious, and as much too large; and that Galtruchius, as D'Assigny has translated and dished him out to us, is so confused and artless in his method, as well as unfortunate in his corrections, that it in nowise answers the purpose it was designed for; and hereupon this work was recommended to be translated, being first well approved by learned gentlemen, as is above mentioned, for its easy method and agreeable plainness. Besides, it having been written by so learned a person, and that for the use of so great a prince, and so universally received in our neighbour nations, as to have sold several impressions in a short time, there was no room to doubt of its being well received here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.