The Classical Journal, Volume 40A.J. Valpy., 1829 - Classical philology |
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rary world . Criticisms on Classical and Theological subjects have produced a collision of sentiment , and tended to the investigation and elucidation of truth . The Editors have , as far as it was in their power , preserved a spirit of ...
rary world . Criticisms on Classical and Theological subjects have produced a collision of sentiment , and tended to the investigation and elucidation of truth . The Editors have , as far as it was in their power , preserved a spirit of ...
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... produced , and facts less questionable advanced , I shall continue to do so . Having dwelt thus far on the first article of M. de Sacy , let us now proceed to the second , i . e . to the Journal of January , 1829 . The first subject I ...
... produced , and facts less questionable advanced , I shall continue to do so . Having dwelt thus far on the first article of M. de Sacy , let us now proceed to the second , i . e . to the Journal of January , 1829 . The first subject I ...
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... produced a correspondent corruption of taste , and an insensibility to true poetry . In this and other ways , various indeed , but springing from the same cause and tending to the same effect , the revolu- tion was accomplished . Genius ...
... produced a correspondent corruption of taste , and an insensibility to true poetry . In this and other ways , various indeed , but springing from the same cause and tending to the same effect , the revolu- tion was accomplished . Genius ...
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... produced by Romans in later times far behind it . " On a subject on which so much thought and research have been expended by such men , it would argue levity and presumption to form a conclusion with such insufficient means as we are ...
... produced by Romans in later times far behind it . " On a subject on which so much thought and research have been expended by such men , it would argue levity and presumption to form a conclusion with such insufficient means as we are ...
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... produce a second age of Grecian literature , thinly disguised in a Roman ex- terior . This appears , as far as we can judge , to have been a signal error . It was certainly fatal , not indeed altogether , but in a very great degree , to ...
... produce a second age of Grecian literature , thinly disguised in a Roman ex- terior . This appears , as far as we can judge , to have been a signal error . It was certainly fatal , not indeed altogether , but in a very great degree , to ...
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Page 108 - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
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Page 137 - ... national government to encroach upon the state authorities. The proof of this proposition turns upon the greater degree of influence which the state governments, if they administer their affairs with uprightness and prudence, will generally possess over the people ; a circumstance which at the same time teaches us, that there is an inherent and intrinsic weakness in all federal constitutions ; and that too much pains cannot be taken in their organization, to give them all the force which is compatible...
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Page 246 - Mercator metuens otium et oppidi Laudat rura sui ; mox reficit rates Quassas indocilis pauperiem pati. Est qui nee veteris pocula Massici Nee partem solido demere de die Spernit, nunc viridi membra sub arbuto Stratus, nunc ad aquae lene caput sacrae.
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Page 61 - The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from heaven, with all his host Of rebel angels ; by whose aid aspiring To set himself in glory...
Page 265 - And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Page 123 - Consider, my children, what that signifies, he finished them in six days. The meaning of it is this: that in six thousand years the Lord God will bring all things to an end. For with him one day is a thousand years; as himself testifieth, saying, Behold this day shall be as a thousand years.
Page 245 - Namque canebat, uti magnum per inane coacta Semina terrarumque animœque marisque fuissent / Et liquidi simul ignis : ut his exordia primis Omnia, et ipse tener mundi concreverit orbis...