 | William Cooke - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 574
...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... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 662
...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... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...the creed of the Greeks was highly favourable to Art. Gibbon has observed that their language gave a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. The same lively and penetrating genius which formed their tongue was exercised in the development of... | |
 | 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 836
...In their lowest depths of 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." Meanwhile we are made to feel that the subjects of the Byzantine throne, with their musical speech,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...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 of antiquity ; of a musical anil prolific language that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...were revelling among the treasures of that noble language which, in the fine expression of Gibbon, ' gives a soul to the objects of sense and a body to the abstractions of philosophy,' and which has during more than twenty centuries been to the world of mind what the sun is to the physical... | |
 | 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...were revelling among the treasures of that noble language which, in the fine expression of Gibbon, ' gives a soul to the objects of sense and a body to the abstractions of philosophy,' and which has during more than twenty centuries been to the world of mind what the sun is to the physical... | |
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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... 
