 | Telemachus Thomas Timayenis - 1877 - 240 pages
...the reasons why we spend so long a time in acquiring the mastery of the Greek are, because the Greek is one of the most delicate and perfect instruments...the idea or fundamental conception of all Grammar ; that is, of those laws which regulate the use of the forms by which we express our thoughts. Again,... | |
 | 1882 - 540 pages
...leeling by means of its masterly syntax, and its highly inflected forms. Farrar in speaking of it says: "It is one of the most delicate and perfect instruments for the expression of thought that was ever elaborated by the mind of man." Curtius says of it : " More than any of its sister languages... | |
 | Garrett Biblical Institute - 1885 - 70 pages
...mental discipline which a thorough study of Greek secures. It has been truly said that this language is "one of the most delicate and perfect instruments for the expression of thought ever elaborated by the mind of man," and that for hundreds of years it has been found to be "one of... | |
 | 1885 - 326 pages
...inflectional or synthetic language." " Greek is one of the most delicate and perfect instruments for expression of thought which was ever elaborated by the mind of man, and it is therefore adapted, both by its points of resemblance to our own and other modern languages, and... | |
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We do so partly because it is one of the most delicate and perfect instruments for the expression of thought which was ever elaborated by the mind of man, and because it is therefore admirably adapted, both by its points of resemblance to our own and... 