 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...language, as the historian enthusiastically expresses it, so musical and prolific, 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 706
...precision of argument — " a musical and prolific language," as it is expressed by the historian, " that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." The history of the origin and progress of this language, like that of other ancient tongues, is obscure.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...Italy 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...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...prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of (78) None of these original acta of union can at present he produced. Of the ten MSS. that are preserved... | |
 | 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...modern reader, the effect is far from inconsiderable. It has been said of the Greek language, that it gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Grecian genius has performed the harder task, of giving substance and reality, to the airy visions... | |
 | 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...modern reader, the effect is far from inconsiderable. It has been said of the Greek language, that it gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Grecian genius has performed the harder task, of giving substance and reality, to the airy visions... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...glories of the idiom of old Hellas — " of that rich and harmonious language, whose sounds could give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." Nor was the ancient Greek neglected; besides Vamba, who is esteemed a good Hellenist, there was always... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...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...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy !"—Chap. Ixvi. '* la the resutrecction of science, Italy was the first that cast away her shroud;... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 616
...their lowest servitude and depression," says Gibbon, " 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." c. Ixvi. in its liturgy and ceremonies retained the pure and early dialect of the nation.* The sacred... | |
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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... 
