...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...

...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 to the abstractions of philosophy. Since the barriers of the monarchy, and even of the capital, had been trampled under foot, the various...

...praise bestowed on Greek by Gibbon. " It is," says he, " a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of 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...

...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 to the abstractions of philosophy; but these advantages only tend to aggravate the reproach and shame of a degenerate people. They held...

...that Greek has 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,...

...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 to the abstractions of philosophy." It cannot, perhaps, be said that the knowledge of the Greek tongue was ever entirely lost in western...