...Greek learning. They schooled themselves in that language which, in the grand words of Gibbon, " gave a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." They grounded their political faith upon the history of a country in which the duties and rights of...

...probable that Sanskrit, like its cognate Greek, may be characterised as a speech " 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 are aware...

...language, as the historian -[-) enthusiastically expresses it, so musical and protific, that it could give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics? — Those lofty but dangerous speculations, therefore, in which the strongest minds sometimes...