...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...

...centuries ? In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures...musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to GKEBK LITERATURE. 141 the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. The national...

...language so well described by Gibbon in referrmg to the Greek — a language at once capable of giving a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of mind ; else, though our hands will indeed be the hands of a Briton, our voice will be the voice of...

...servitude and depression," says a modern historian, " 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." (Gibion, vi, 414.) In this calamitous period, however, the few Byzantine writers which appeared were...

...beauty, the noblest monument of a mighty race. Gibbon has said of the Greek language, " that it has given a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." Language has been most essentially indebted, alike for its diffusion, its permanency and its perfection,...

...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 tho abstractions of philosophy. Poetry, oratory, and the fine arts derive their power from the imagination....

...and North, la their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures...Since the barriers of the monarchy, and even of the capita], had been trampled under foot, the various Barbarians had doubtless corrupted the form and...

...valuable kind. What Gibbon said of the Greek language is equally true of Greek art : that it could give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. In endeavouring to attain a competent knowledge of the human form and become a good designer, the student...

...Professorship at Oxford, so little attention is paid there to Sanskrit — a language " capable of giving a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of Metaphysics." Both Professor Lee at Cambridge, and Dr. Wilson at Oxford, complain of the little encouragement...

...Professorship at Oxford, so little attention is paid there to Sanskrit — a language " capable of giving a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of Metaphysics." Both Professor Lee at Cambridge, and Dr. Wilson at Oxford, complain of the little encouragement...