 ... through four-and-twenty Olympiads, each containing four solar years. He narrowly escaped being a hundred years old ; and though that did not carry him from centre to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty...  Writings - Page 160by Thomas De Quincey - 1864Full view - About this book
 | England - 1840 - 880 pages
...though that did not carry him from centre to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact,...(Cicero, for instance, and Milton) have taken a delight ¡a his memory. One is, that the school of rhetoric in Athens, which did not finally go down till the... | |
 | Scotland - 1840 - 1522 pages
...though that did not carry him from centre to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact,...different in character, (Cicero, for instance, and Milton) Kave taken a delight i« his memory. One is, that the school of rhetoric in Athens, which did not finally... | |
 | Literature - 1858 - 674 pages
...though that did not carry him from centre to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact,...which composed the total world of Grecian genius." Had he been long, the opium-eater proceeds to remark,* in any other situation than just in that dreary... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Conversation - 1861 - 638 pages
...attempted to murder a friend by means of a dumb-bell; in which he showed his judgment, we mean in the choice of tools; for otherwise, in attempting to murder...did not finally go down till the reign of Justinian, aad, therefore, lasted above 940 years without interruption, began with him. He was, ' says Cicero,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 374 pages
...though that did not carry him from centre to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact,...the reign of Justinian, and, therefore, lasted above 940 years without interruption, began with him. He was, says Cicero, De Orat., " Pater eloquentise... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 364 pages
...though that did not carry him from centre to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact,...the reign of Justinian, and, therefore, lasted above 940 years without interruption, began with him. He was, says Cicero, De Orat., " Pater eloquentiae... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 378 pages
...though that did not carry him from centre to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact,...the reign of Justinian, and, therefore, lasted above 940 years without interruption, began with him. He was, says Cicero, De Oral., " Pater eloquentise;"... | |
 | David Masson - 1881 - 222 pages
...though that did not carry him from centre to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact,...which composed the total world of Grecian genius. . . . Now then, reader, you have arrived at that station from which you overlook the whole ot Greek... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...supposed to portend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact, a full personal cognizance of the two systems, remote as they were, which composed the total world of Grecian genius. It is for this quality of length that Milton honors him with a touching memorial; for Isocrates was... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English literature - 1882 - 460 pages
...supposed to portend a radins each way of twenty years, he had, in fact, a full personal cognizance of the two systems, remote as they were, which composed the total world of Grecian genins. It is for this quality of length that Milton honors him with a touching memorial; for Isocrates... | |
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