...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...