Philological Inquiries: In Three Parts, Volumen3C. Nourse, 1781 |
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Página 240
... Arts , naturally despised those things , from which they had reaped no advantage . THIS was the age of Monkery and Le- gends ; of Leonine Verfes * , ( that is of bad Latin put into rhime ; ) of Projects to de- cide Truth by Plough ...
... Arts , naturally despised those things , from which they had reaped no advantage . THIS was the age of Monkery and Le- gends ; of Leonine Verfes * , ( that is of bad Latin put into rhime ; ) of Projects to de- cide Truth by Plough ...
Página 245
... Arts and Sciences were thus obfcured , may be faid to have happily maintained the Con- tinuity of Knowlege ; to have been ( if I may ufe the expreffion ) like the Twilight of a * Thofe , who would be farther informed concerning thefe ...
... Arts and Sciences were thus obfcured , may be faid to have happily maintained the Con- tinuity of Knowlege ; to have been ( if I may ufe the expreffion ) like the Twilight of a * Thofe , who would be farther informed concerning thefe ...
Página 247
... Arts * . Philofophy indeed , when thefe Authors wrote , was finking apace . The Stoic Syftem , and even the Stoic Writings were the greater part of them loftt . Other * See below , Chap . III . + See Philofoph . Arrangements , p . 253 ...
... Arts * . Philofophy indeed , when thefe Authors wrote , was finking apace . The Stoic Syftem , and even the Stoic Writings were the greater part of them loftt . Other * See below , Chap . III . + See Philofoph . Arrangements , p . 253 ...
Página 256
... Art of every kind foon rofe among them , and flourished . Valour had given them Re putation ; Reputation gave them an Afcen dant ; and that Afcendant produced a Se curity , which left their minds at ease and gave them leifure to ...
... Art of every kind foon rofe among them , and flourished . Valour had given them Re putation ; Reputation gave them an Afcen dant ; and that Afcendant produced a Se curity , which left their minds at ease and gave them leifure to ...
Página 257
... Arts and Sciences , from their Dawn to their Meridian , is elegantly and philofophically exhi bited . * See Plutarch's Life of Pericles , p . 350 , 351 , 352 , 353 , 354. in the Quarto Greek Edition of Bryan , Vol . I. and Stuart's ...
... Arts and Sciences , from their Dawn to their Meridian , is elegantly and philofophically exhi bited . * See Plutarch's Life of Pericles , p . 350 , 351 , 352 , 353 , 354. in the Quarto Greek Edition of Bryan , Vol . I. and Stuart's ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 532 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new ? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Página 464 - How can they say that nature Has nothing made in vain ; Why then, beneath the water, Should hideous rocks remain ? No eyes the rocks discover That lurk beneath the deep, To wreck the wandering lover, And leave the maid to weep.
Página 487 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Página 267 - Athens only celebrated for the refidence of philofophers, and the inftitution of youth: men of rank and fortune found pleafure in a retreat, which contributed fo much to their liberal enjoyment. The friend and correfpondent of Cicero, T.
Página 530 - One absurdity in this author (a wretched philosopher, though a great wit) is well worth remarking: in order to render the nature of man odious...
Página 249 - ... the admiration of every beholder. It was then that Polygnotus and Myro painted ; that Sophocles and Euripides wrote ; and not long after, that they faw the divine Socrates.
Página 528 - In our time it may be spoken more truly than of old, that virtue is gone ; the church is under foot ; the clergy is in error ; the devil reigneth,
Página 256 - Zeno taught in a portico or colonnade, distinguished fromoiherbuildingsofth.it sort (of which the Athenians had many) by the name of the Variegated Portico, the walls being decorated with various paintings of Polygnotus and Myro, two capital masters of that transcendent period.
Página 246 - upon this ordered them to be dispersed through the "baths of Alexandria, and to be there burnt in making "the baths warm. After this manner, in the space of "six months, they were all consumed.
Página 274 - Its fortune after this was various ; and it •was sometimes under the Venetians, sometimes under the Catalonians, till Mahomet the Great made himself master of Constantinople. This -fatal catastrophe (which happened near two thousand years after the time of...