 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pagine
...propagated to ""^'D the last nations of the West and North. In their lowest 1300.servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Since the barriers of the monarchy, and even of the capital, had been trampled under foot, the various... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 558 pagine
...their members to an awkward moderation. feantine throne were still possessed of a golden key CHAP. that could unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Since the barriers of the monarchy, and even of the capital, had been trampled under foot, the various... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 696 pagine
...argument — " a musical and prolific language," as it is expressed by the historian, " that gives u soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." The history of the origin and progress of this language, like that of other ancient tongues, is obscure.... | |
 | 1811 - 558 pagine
...signal success. This musical and prolific language does not only, to use the words of Gibbon, " give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the "abstractions of philosophy," but is, as the same author justly observes, " the golden key that unlocks the treasures of antiquity."... | |
 | Henry Dillon - 1814 - 106 pagine
...PRIVATE STUDENTS, BY A GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. " ïn their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the, Byzantine Throne were still possessed...unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of a musical, prolific language, that gives a soul to the object» of tense» and a body to the abstractions of philosophy."... | |
 | 1814 - 258 pagine
...precision of argument — " a musical and prolifick language" as it is expressed by the historian, " that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body lo the abstractions of philosophy." Aikcn't Rn. EXTREME POVERTY OP THE SICILIAN NO" BIUTY. From Gili'i... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pagine
...nations of the West and!\eD. 1300 North. In their lowest servitude and depression, the—1453subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Since the barriers of the monarchy, and even of the capital, had been trampled under foot, the various... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 pagine
...language, as the historian enthusiastically expresses it, so musical and prolific, that it could give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics ?- — Those lofty but dangerous speculations, therefore, in which the strongest minds... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pagine
...language, as the historian enthusiastically expresses it, so musical and prolific, that it could give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics ? — Those lofty but dangerous speculations, therefore, in which the strongest minds sometimes... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 706 pagine
...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 of philosophy." The history of the origin and progress of this language, like that of other ancient tongues, is obscure.... | |
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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... 
