 | John Churton Collins - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 150
...suitable is its vocabulary for the expression of subtle thought by terms which, as Gibbon puts it, " give soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy ! " Bacon has remarked that there is no stond or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by proper... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 614
...Ferrara, and Florence is contained in vol. vii., parts i. and ii., of Hef Jo's Conciliengeschiohte.] of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul...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 - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 658
...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 of antiquity ; 77 So nugatory, or rather BO fabulous, are these reunions of the Nestorians, Jacobites, <tc. that... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1920 - عدد الصفحات: 282
...passage from Thucydides or from Aristotle, to illustrate Gibbon's saying that the Greek language "gave a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics." But there it is, and it has haunted our literature; at first filtering through Latin,... | |
 | Gilbert Murray, William Ralph Inge, John Burnet - 1921 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...says the subjects of the Byzantine Throne, even in their lowest servitude and depression, were still possessed, ' of a golden key that could unlock the...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy '. Our very lives seem prolonged by the recollection of antiquity ; for, as Cicero says, not to know... | |
 | Christopher Morley - 1924 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...says the subjects of the Byzantine Throne, even in their lowest servitude and depression, were still possessed, "of a golden key that could unlock the...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." Our very lives seem prolonged by the recollection of antiquity; for, as Cicero says, not to know what... | |
 | William Pember Reeves - 1924 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...worthy of the eloquent. If we cannot say of the Maori tongue as Gibbon said of Greek, that it " can give a soul to the objects of sense and a body to the abstractions of philosophy," we can at any rate claim for it that it is a musical and vigorous speech. Full of vowelsounds, entirely... | |
 | Iōannēs Gennadios, John Gennadius - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 56
...subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of A golden key that could unlock the treasury of antiquity — of a musical and prolific language,...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." The Schools of Byzantium, having inherited the unbroken tradition of Ancient Greece, continued to produce... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 558
...the recondite subtleties of the Greek language, and inexhaustible pleasure in the possession of that "golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity, of a musical and prolific Ianguage tnat gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy."... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...us how even " In their lowest depression the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a musical and prolific language that gives a soul...sense and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." And Mrs. Browning has said many beautiful things of the " language that lived so long and died so hard,... | |
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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... 
