Montesquieu, what Homer has been to the didactic writers on epic poetry. As the latter have considered the work of the immortal Bard, as the perfect model from which the principles and rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works... Popular Government: Four Essays - Page 199by Henry Sumner Maine - 1886 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...and rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged; so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...standard, or to use his own expression, as the mirror of politicalliberty; and to have delivered, in the form of elementary truths, the several characteristic... | |
| James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged : so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...characteristic principles of that particular system. That we may be sure then not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from which... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged : so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...characteristic principles of that particular system. That we may be sure then not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from which... | |
| Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1837 - 642 pages
...rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged ; so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...truths, the several characteristic principles of that system ". But, sir, in this " mirror " of that great author he saw the partial blending of the separate... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1852 - 528 pages
...and rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged: so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...characteristic principles of that particular system. That we may be sure then not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from which... | |
| Henry Barton Dawson - Constitutional law - 1863 - 770 pages
...rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged : so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...characteristic principles of that particular system. That we may be sure, then, not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 772 pages
...rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged : so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...characteristic principles of that particular system. That we may be sure, then, not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from... | |
| United States - 1864 - 786 pages
...rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged : so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...characteristic principles of that particular system. That we may be sure, then, not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 848 pages
...rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged : so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...characteristic principles of that particular system. That we may be sure then not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from which... | |
| 1865 - 696 pages
...rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged : so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...characteristic principles of that particular system. That we may be sure, then, not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from... | |
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