...Greek learning. They schooled themselves in that language which, in the grand words of Gibbon, " gave a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." They grounded their political faith upon the history of a country in which the duties and rights of...

...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...

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

...probable that 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." But, as the Tibetan language can have no pretensions to a like power, those who are aware...

...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...