 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 884
...preceptor in the Grecian language ; — that divine language, which, as Mr Gibbon finely expresses it, " gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." The literary fame which Poggio afterwards acquired, is the best proof of the proficiency which he made... | |
 | Friedrich von Adelung - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 270
...Greek: " In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." Gibbon's Rome, vol. viii, p. 162, Oxford edit. z The number of Sanscrit works described in the work... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...Sanskrit books pregpived in Nepal, are the sole authorities relied on in this paper. " capable of giving a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics." But as the Tibetan language can have no pretensions to a like power, those who know that... | |
 | Nathaniel Fish Moore - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 176
...and improved by use. It has been described as a language " so musical and prolific that it could give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics ;" as, " that wonderful language, which, formed amid migrations and revolutions of every... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...authorities relied on in this paper. MR. BRIAN HODGSON'S QUOTATIONS IN PROOF. 289 " capable of giving a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics." But as the Tibetan language can have no pretensions to a like power, those who know that... | |
 | Revival - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 162
...past victory, Mahomet II. * In their lowest servitude, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Gibbon's Rome. Vol. XII. p. 114. the sultan of the Turks, placed his banner before the gates, and commenced... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 932
...subjects of the Byzantine throne were still • Evidence of Univ. Com. ii. 830—283. t Report, p. SH. possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." It cannot, perhaps, be said that the knowledge of the Greek tongue was ever entirely lost in western... | |
 | Alexander Duff - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 716
...observes Talboys, which Gibbon bestowed on the Greek, seems fully as applicable to the Sanskrit, " it is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." " The music of Sanskrit composition," adds Dr Wilson of Oxford, " must ever be inadequately represented... | |
 | 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...wanting, in every species of human composition, whether requiring copiousness or precision, — that ' musical and prolific ' language that gives a soul...sense, and a body ' to the abstractions of philosophy.' ' It proved, as might have been expected, equally well adapted for the flowing eloquence of a Christian... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...subjects of the Byzantine throne were still • Evidence of Univ. Com. ii, £30—233. t Report, p. S14. possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures...— of a musical and prolific language, that gives a EOU! to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." It cannot, perhaps, be... | |
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In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body... 
