| 1824 - 488 pages
...Having no fixed standard, Longinus is right only by accident. He is rather a fancier than a critic. Modern writers have been prevented by many causes...grammatical and philological studies, without which it was impossible to understand the great works of Athenian and Roman genius, have a tendency to contract... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 pages
...Having no fixed standard, Longinus is right only by accident. He is rather a fancier than a critic. Modern writers have been prevented by many causes...grammatical and philological studies, without which it was impossible to understand the great works of Athenian and Roman genius, have a tendency to contract... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 424 pages
...Having no fixed standard, Longinus is right only by accident. He is rather a fancier than a critic. Modern writers have been prevented by many causes...grammatical and philological studies, without which it was impossible to understand the great works of Athenian and Eoman genius, have a tendency to contract... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 pages
...Having no fixed standard, Longinus is right only by accident. He is rather a fancier than a critic. Modern writers have been prevented by many causes...classical predecessors. At the time of the revival of literature1, no man could, without great and painful labour, acquire an accurate and elegant knowledge... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 730 pages
...Having no fixed standard, Longinus is right only by accident. He is rather a fancier than a critic. Modern writers have been prevented by many causes...grammatical and philological studies, without which it was impossible to understand the great works of Athenian and Roman genius, have a tendency to contract... | |
| United States. Commission to the Paris Exposition, 1867 - 1870 - 824 pages
...Essay on the Athenian Orators," gives his view of an exclusively classical course of instruction : " Modern writers have been prevented by many causes...revival of literature no man could, without great arid painful labor, acquire an accurate and elegant knowledge of the ancient languages; and unfortunately... | |
| United States commission to the Paris expos, 1867 - 1870 - 816 pages
...an exclusively classical course of instruction: "Modern writers have been prevented by many canses from supplying the deficiencies of their classical...literature no man could, without great and painful labor, acquire an accurate and elegant knowledge of the ancient languages; and unfortunately those... | |
| United States. Commission to the Paris Exposition, 1867 - 1870 - 816 pages
...Essay ou the Athenian Orators," gives his view of an exclusively1 classical course of instruction : "Modern writers have been prevented by many ca.uses...from supplying the deficiencies of their classical prede cessors. At the time of the revival of literature no man could, without great and painful labor,... | |
| John Wesley Hoyt - 1870 - 412 pages
...Essay on the Athenian Orators," gives his view of an exclusively classical \course of instruction: " Modern writers have been prevented by many causes from supplying the deficiencies of their classical prede eessors. At the time of the revival of literature no man could, without great and painful labor,... | |
| John Wesley Hoyt - 1870 - 402 pages
...Essay on the Athenian Orators," gives his view of an exclusively classical course of instruction : u Modern writers have been prevented by many causes from supplying the deficiencies of their classical prede cessors. At the time of the revival of literature no man could, without great and painful labor,... | |
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