Before the revival of classic literature, the Barbarians in Europe were immersed in ignorance ; and their vulgar tongues were marked with the rudeness and poverty of their manners. The students of the more perfect idioms of Rome and Greece... Wisconsin Journal of Education - Page 51864Full view - About this book
| Edward Gibbon - 1788 - 470 pages
...and their vulgar tongues were marked >ngwith the rudenefs and poverty of their manners. The Itudents of the more perfect idioms of Rome and Greece, were introduced to a new world of light andfcience ; to the fociety of the free and polifhed nations of antiquity; and to a familiar converfe... | |
| 1788 - 750 pages
...vulgar tongues were marked with the rudenefs and poverty of their manners. The Itudents of the mere perfect idioms of Rome and Greece, were introduced to a new world of light and fcience ; to the fociety of the free and polifhed nations of .iniquity ; and to a familiar converfe... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1788 - 738 pages
...tongues were marked with the rudenefs and poverty of their manners. The lludents of the more perfeft idioms of Rome and Greece, were introduced to a new world of light and fcience ; to the fociety of the free and polifhed nations of antiquity ; and to a familiar converge... | |
| Joseph Lomas Towers - 1796 - 518 pages
...tongues were marked with the ' rudenefs and poverty of their manners. The fludents ' of the more perfeft idioms of Rome and Greece were ' introduced to a new world of light and fcience; to the ' fociety of the free and polimed nations of antiquity; and ' to a familiar converfe... | |
| Robert Walpole - 1805 - 192 pages
...Greece and Rome, have never been condemned except by the ignorant ; since we are thus introduced " to the society of the free and polished nations of...spoke the sublime language of eloquence and reason.*" And in acquiring a competent knowledge of the four languages of modern Europe which flow from the Latin... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 564 pages
...ignorance ; , and their vulgar tongues were marked with the rudeness and poverty of their manners. The students of the more perfect idioms of Rome and...were introduced to a new world of light and science j to the society of the free and polished nations of antiquity ; and to a familiar converse with those... | |
| Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 pages
...in ignorance ; and their vulgar tongues were marked with the rudeness and poverty of their manners. The students of the more perfect idioms of Rome and...of light and science ; to the society of the free 86 Lord Bolingbroke, speaking of Nicholas V. and other pontiffs, says, ' the popes proved worse politicians... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1841 - 504 pages
...in ignorance ; and their vulgar tongues were marked with the rudeness and poverty of their manners. The students of the more perfect idioms of Rome and...those immortal men who spoke the sublime language of éloquence and reason. Such an intercourse must tend to refine the taste, and to elevate the genius,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1844 - 500 pages
...in ignorance ; and their vulgar tongues were marked with the rudeness and poverty of their manners. The students of the more perfect idioms of Rome and...an intercourse must tend to refine the taste, and t» elevate the genius, of the moderns ; and yet, from the first experiments, it might appear that... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 574 pages
...ignorance ; and their vulgar learning, tougueg were marked with the rudeness and poverty of their manners. The students of the more perfect idioms of Rome and...of the free and polished nations of antiquity ; and tu a familiar converse with those immortal men who spoke the sublime language of eloquence and reason.... | |
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