Classical Studies: Essays on Ancient Literature and ArtGould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1843 - 413 páginas |
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... hand or to the left . Even if classical learning should be , in some respects , connected with the practical business of life , it is not so regarded by the mass of the people . The lawyer , who is known to possess a fine classical ...
... hand or to the left . Even if classical learning should be , in some respects , connected with the practical business of life , it is not so regarded by the mass of the people . The lawyer , who is known to possess a fine classical ...
Página viii
... , their authoritative commission . Resort to translations is as obviously improper , as it would be for a constitutional lawyer to gain his knowledge of the political institutions of the State at second hand . A mastery viii INTRODUCTION .
... , their authoritative commission . Resort to translations is as obviously improper , as it would be for a constitutional lawyer to gain his knowledge of the political institutions of the State at second hand . A mastery viii INTRODUCTION .
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Essays on Ancient Literature and Art Barnas Sears. institutions of the State at second hand . A mastery of the original languages of the Bible was , probably , never attained by any one , who was not familiar with classical Greek . The ...
Essays on Ancient Literature and Art Barnas Sears. institutions of the State at second hand . A mastery of the original languages of the Bible was , probably , never attained by any one , who was not familiar with classical Greek . The ...
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... He looks off from Lebanon , and sees the sun setting on the level bosom of the " great sea , and wide on every hand , " without an intervening object . The same luminary , rising on a boundless desert of INTRODUCTION . xi.
... He looks off from Lebanon , and sees the sun setting on the level bosom of the " great sea , and wide on every hand , " without an intervening object . The same luminary , rising on a boundless desert of INTRODUCTION . xi.
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... hand , in the quality of beauty , the Greek has greatly the advantage . His language is an exact copy of himself , easy , graceful , flexible , fashioned to express the subtlest conceptions , and to charm the most practised ear ...
... hand , in the quality of beauty , the Greek has greatly the advantage . His language is an exact copy of himself , easy , graceful , flexible , fashioned to express the subtlest conceptions , and to charm the most practised ear ...
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