Philological Inquiries: In Three Parts, Volume 3C. Nourse, 1781 - English essays |
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... Country had attained fuch a perfection in its Arts and Lan- guage , that he acquired to himself the additional name of ATTICUS . This great Man may be faid to have lived during times of the worft and crueleft factions . His youth was ...
... Country had attained fuch a perfection in its Arts and Lan- guage , that he acquired to himself the additional name of ATTICUS . This great Man may be faid to have lived during times of the worft and crueleft factions . His youth was ...
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... COUNTRY , than we had yet paft : for not a Shepherd , that we met , but bid us WELCOME , AND WISHED US a good journey — p . 335 , ATHENIANS , he adds This must with great truth be faid of them , their bad for- tune hath not been able to ...
... COUNTRY , than we had yet paft : for not a Shepherd , that we met , but bid us WELCOME , AND WISHED US a good journey — p . 335 , ATHENIANS , he adds This must with great truth be faid of them , their bad for- tune hath not been able to ...
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... Country- men . For who ever published , without hopes of having Readers ? THE fame may be afferted of the learned Bishop of Theffalonica , EUSTATHIUS , who lived in the twelfth Century . His admi- ration of HOMER must have been almost ...
... Country- men . For who ever published , without hopes of having Readers ? THE fame may be afferted of the learned Bishop of Theffalonica , EUSTATHIUS , who lived in the twelfth Century . His admi- ration of HOMER must have been almost ...
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... the First Fami- lies in Italy , and a multitude more of in- * See Fabric . Biblioth . Grac . T. X. p . 533 . ferior rank , to leave their Country , and Ch.IV. ferior 296 PHILOLOGICAL P. III. LOGY (that well known Collection printed ...
... the First Fami- lies in Italy , and a multitude more of in- * See Fabric . Biblioth . Grac . T. X. p . 533 . ferior rank , to leave their Country , and Ch.IV. ferior 296 PHILOLOGICAL P. III. LOGY (that well known Collection printed ...
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In Three Parts Shakey Jake. ferior rank , to leave their Country , and Ch.IV. there fettle themselves . We may there- fore fuppofe , that LATIN was for a long time the prevailing Language of the Place , till in a course of years it was ...
In Three Parts Shakey Jake. ferior rank , to leave their Country , and Ch.IV. there fettle themselves . We may there- fore fuppofe , that LATIN was for a long time the prevailing Language of the Place , till in a course of years it was ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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,
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...