...Gibbon has said in one of his well-poised sentences, " 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." It cannot, perhaps, be said that the knowledge of the Greek tongue was ever entirely lost in western...

...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...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...

...remarked that " in their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures...had been trampled under foot, the various barbarisms had doubtless corrupted the form and substance of the national dialect." КШ1, in the Preface to his...

...the close of the fifteenth century, Greek was taught at Oxford, and men marvelled as they read that "musical and prolific language, that gives a soul...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy," a knowledge of which had been before entirely lost in the 91 West. Thus was perfected what is known...

...the soul, and furnishing the highest and widest scope to the imagination of the artist ; " lending a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." And this polytheistic system passed — or rather is passing, for the process is not yet complete —...

...the soul, and furnishing the highest and widest scope to the imagination of the artist ; " lending a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." And this polytJieistic system passed — or rather is passing, for the process is not yet complete...

...that " golden key," in the sonorous periods of Gibbon, " that could unlock the treasures of antiquity, a musical and prolific language that gives a soul...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy," lived on as an oral speech. Yet learning, amidst the effete life of a decayed civilization remained...

...its power to attract and interest. Imagination imparts drapery, colour, and life to our thoughts ; it gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Poetry, oratory, and the fine arts, derive their power from the imagination. Affections and Passions...

...LANGUAGE. 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, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch. 66. M GREEK LANGUAGE. No language was ever so full...

...and North. 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 an<! prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of...