| George Lillie Craik - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...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... | |
| P A. Beddome - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...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... | |
| 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...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... | |
| Martin Ruter - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...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... | |
| Thomas Fisher - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 240
...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,... | |
| عدد الصفحات: 822
...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.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 574
...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... | |
| Henry Howard, Frank Howard - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...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... | |
| 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...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... | |
| 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 618
...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... | |
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