 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity; of a musical and...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Since the barriers of the monarchy, and even of the capital, had been trampled under foot, the various... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 696 pages
...argument — " a musical and prolific language," as it is expressed by the historian, " that gives u soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." The history of the origin and progress of this language, like that of other ancient tongues, is obscure.... | |
 | Europe - 1811 - 558 pages
...signal success. This musical and prolific language does not only, to use the words of Gibbon, " give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the "abstractions of philosophy," but is, as the same author justly observes, " the golden key that unlocks the treasures of antiquity."... | |
 | United States - 1814 - 258 pages
...precision of argument — " a musical and prolifick language" as it is expressed by the historian, " that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body lo the abstractions of philosophy." Aikcn't Rn. EXTREME POVERTY OP THE SICILIAN NO" BIUTY. From Gili'i... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...language, as the historian enthusiastically expresses it, so musical and prolific, that it could give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics ? — Those lofty but dangerous speculations, therefore, in which the strongest minds sometimes... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1819 - 592 pages
...language, as the historian enthusiastically expresses it, so musical and prolific, that it could give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics ?- — Those lofty but dangerous speculations, therefore, in which the strongest minds... | |
 | John Aikin - Literature, Modern - 1807 - 706 pages
...precision of argument — " a musical and prolific language," as it is expressed by the historian, " that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." The history of the origin and progress of this language, like that of other ancient tongues, is obscure.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity; of a musical and...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Since the barriers of the monarchy, and even of the capital, had been trampled under foot, the various... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1829 - 482 pages
...and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity; of a musical and...prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of (78) None of these original acta of union can at present he produced. Of the ten MSS. that are preserved... | |
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In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body... 
