| Edward Gibbon - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 694
...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...capital , had been trampled under foot, the various Barbarians had doubtless corrupted the form and substance of the national dialect ; and ample glossaries... | |
| 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 654
...language so well described by Gibbon in referring 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 a... | |
| 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...language so well described by Gibbon in referring 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... | |
| 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 566
...in the world, but they learnt it well. Wielding at will that marvellous mother tongue, which gave ' a soul to the objects of sense, and a body ' to the abstractions of philosophy,' they looked with characteristic presumption on every dialect spoken by the tribes on the shores of... | |
| 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...in the world, but they learnt it well. Wielding at will that marvellous mother tongue, which gave ' a soul to the objects of sense, and a body ' to the abstractions of philosophy,' they looked with characteristic presumption on every dialect spoken by the tribes on the shores of... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...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...capital, had been trampled under foot, the various Barbarians had doubtless corrupted the form and substance of the national dialect ; and ample glossaries... | |
| Peter Percival - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 582
...than either." Talboys applies to Sanscrit the praise bestowed on Greek by Gibbon. " It is," says he, " a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." The greatest Sanscrit scholar of the age, Professor Wilson, says, " The music of Sanscrit composition... | |
| 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 502
...faculties. In their hands, as Gibbon finely remarks, language "gives a soul * Biimey on Education, p. S. to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." There is no idea however shadowy, and no feeling however evanescent, which their lustrous phraseology... | |
| R. McCullam - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...lowest servitude," says the historian of the " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," " the Greeks were possessed of a golden key, that could unlock the treasures...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy; but these advantages only tend to aggravate the reproach and shame of a degenerate people. They held... | |
| 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...been considered a language unique, one which, in a manner or degree peculiar to itself, could ' give a soul to the objects of sense and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics.' The merits of languages, as such, cannot be decided in quite such an offhand manner,... | |
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