 | England - 1840 - 880 pages
...the long man that ran into each system — binding the two together. Who was that ? It was Isocrates. Great we cannot call him in conscience ; and therefore,...(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
...and therefore, by way of compromise, we call him long, which, in one sense, he certainly was ; for be lived through four-and-twenty Olympiads, each containing...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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 382 pages
...centre to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty year!, he had, in fact, a full personal cognisance (and pretty...the reign of Justinian, and, therefore, lasted above nine hundred and forty years without interruption, began with him. He was, says Cicero DC Oral., '... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Essenes - 1853 - 370 pages
...the long man that ran into each system — binding the two together. Who was that ? It was Isocrates. Great we cannot call him in conscience; and, therefore,...the reign of Justinian, and, therefore, lasted above nine hundred and forty years without interruption, began with him. He was, says Cicero De Orat.,' Pater... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Essenes - 1853 - 372 pages
...the long man that ran into each system — binding the two together. Who was that? It was Isocrates. Great we cannot call him in conscience ; and, therefore,...the reign of Justinian, and, therefore, lasted above nine hundred and forty years without interruption, began with him. He was, says Cicero De Oral., '... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Essenes - 1853 - 372 pages
...the long man that ran into each system — binding the two together. Who was that ? It was Isocrates. Great we cannot call him in conscience; and, therefore,...the reign of Justinian, and, therefore, lasted above nine hundred and forty years without interruption, began with him. He was, says Cicero De Oral.,' Pater... | |
 | Literature - 1858 - 674 pages
...in the article of longevity, living through four-and-twenty Olympiads, of four solar years each. " He narrowly escaped being a hundred years old ; and...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
...though that did not carry him from centre to centre, yet as each system might be supposed to portend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact,...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 - 1864 - 356 pages
...though that did not carry him from centre to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to portend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact,...the reign of Justinian, and, therefore, lasted above nine hundred and forty years without interruption, began with him. He was, says Cicero De Oral., '... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 596 pages
...though that did not carry him from centre to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to portend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact,...the reign of Justinian, and, therefore, lasted above nine hundred and forty years withou', interruption, began with him. He was, says Cicero De Orat., '... | |
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Great we cannot call him in conscience ; and, therefore, by way of compromise, we call him long, which, in one sense, he certainly was ; for he lived through four-and-twenty Olympiads, each containing four solar years. He narrowly escaped being a hundred... 
