The Quarterly Review, 120. köideJohn Murray, 1866 |
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Page 324
... Greek and Latin languages as the best means of training the intellect and taste , and to the knowledge of ancient literature and life as the origin of modern civilisation . Their attention , however , has been in the mean time somewhat ...
... Greek and Latin languages as the best means of training the intellect and taste , and to the knowledge of ancient literature and life as the origin of modern civilisation . Their attention , however , has been in the mean time somewhat ...
Page 325
... Greek authors . Venice offered the fugitives the shelter of an inde- pendent republic , whose fleets kept the Mohammedans at bay . From this centre Greek learning spread to the universities of Europe ; and , in spite of the adverse ...
... Greek authors . Venice offered the fugitives the shelter of an inde- pendent republic , whose fleets kept the Mohammedans at bay . From this centre Greek learning spread to the universities of Europe ; and , in spite of the adverse ...
Page 326
... Greek . Dissatisfied with his progress while attending the lectures of Adrian Turnebus , Scaliger commenced , in the seclu- sion of his own room , a systematic reading of the Greek authors , beginning with Homer . Two years of incessant ...
... Greek . Dissatisfied with his progress while attending the lectures of Adrian Turnebus , Scaliger commenced , in the seclu- sion of his own room , a systematic reading of the Greek authors , beginning with Homer . Two years of incessant ...
Page 328
... Greek drama from the darkness of uncertainty and fable ; and Bentley handed down the study and emendation of the Greek dramatists as a sort of sacred tradition to the Cambridge school . Here , if anywhere , was scope for the textual ...
... Greek drama from the darkness of uncertainty and fable ; and Bentley handed down the study and emendation of the Greek dramatists as a sort of sacred tradition to the Cambridge school . Here , if anywhere , was scope for the textual ...
Page 334
... Greek , a language capable of almost infinite variety , a language spoken for two thousand years by nations of as many different tempers and manners , opinions and institutions , as covered the face of the ancient world , from the ...
... Greek , a language capable of almost infinite variety , a language spoken for two thousand years by nations of as many different tempers and manners , opinions and institutions , as covered the face of the ancient world , from the ...
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