...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.' * Their pupils, therefore, transmitted to their followers the pronunciation they had received from...

...what is noblest and most precious in the humanities, of ' that musical and prolific language which gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy,' of those literatures, which, in addition to their inestimable, intrinsic value, are, historically speaking,...

...Sanskrit. He wrote: 'Sanskrit, like its cognate Greek, may be characterised as a speech "capable of giving a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics."'40 He goes so far as to criticize Sir William Jones himself for suggesting that Pali...

...(London, 1912), 45. In spite of the difficulties Gibbon described Greek as "a golden key that would unlock the treasures of antiquity of a musical and...sense and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." "He has erected between Euripides and the reader a barrier more impassable than the Greek language...

...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.' * Their pupils, therefore, transmitted to their followers the pronunciation they had received from...

...Modern History. [April, spoke in (hat delightful tongue, which is justly characterized by Gibbon as ' a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.' The busy, imaginative, mercurial temperament of the nation prompted them to cultivate assiduously the...

...servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key which could unlock the treasures of antiquity, of a musical...prolific language that gives a soul to the objects of man, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." (" Decline and Fall," Chap. Ixiv.) Mr. Pattison...

...were still possessed of a gulden key that would unlock the treasures of antiquity, of a musical anil prolific language that gives a soul to the objects...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." (Gibbon, ch. Ixvi.). " Nicolas Hemming was professor of Greek at Copenhagen. His " Apodictica methodus...

...the Greek language, in which the liberal arts have lived and mo ved and have their being, "which gave a soul to the objects of sense and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." "Dialectic" should be restored to its proper plape in the curriculum. It makes little difference by...

...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 oi philosophy." The history of the origin and progress of this language, like that of other ancient...