 | 1916 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...rate, for commerce. The second feature is the devotion of the Greeks at all periods of their history to mental culture, ' not merely from a perception ' that...moral pleasure which literature and art ' bestow.' f The cultured classes of the two great nations of the West were, then, powerfully attracted towards... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 196
...They have at least two : first, a marked aptitude for city-life, as distinguished from rural life on the one hand, and on the other from the life of a...and moral pleasure which literature and art bestow. Lastly, old and new Greece are bound together Language' by language. Latin, in passing into the Romance... | |
 | Ashley Brown - 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...of Professor Jebb might be held to suggest it. The second " aptitude " is scarcely more helpful : " Secondly, the Greeks have at every period of their history been true to the love of mental culture." 1 The Hoplites were originally heavy-armed foot soldiers of good birth, but even this rule was disregarded... | |
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... and usages, those ways of thinking and feeling, which give essential unity to an originally composite nationality. Have the modern and the ancient Greeks any such national characteristics in common ] They have at least two : first, a marked aptitude... 