 | James Harris - Grammar - 1751 - 484 pages
...chafte eloquence and purity of Athens. But of the Greeks we forbear to fpeak now, as we fhall fpeak of them more fully, when we have firft confidered...commotions, fome foreign, fome domeftic, which for ieven hundred years wholly engrofled their thoughts. Hence therefore their LANGUAGE became, like their... | |
 | Several Hands - 1752 - 508 pages
...Julie eloquence and purity of Athens. But of the Greeks we forbear to fpeak now, as we (hall fpeak of them more fully, when we have firft confidered the nature or genius of the Romam. 'And what fort of people may we pronounce the Romans ? —A nation engaged in wars and commotions,... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1773 - 510 pages
...chafte eloquence and purity of Athens. But of the Greeks we forbear to fpeak now, as we fhall fpeak of them more fully, when we have firft confidered the Nature or Genius of the Romans. AN D what fort of People may we pronounce the ROMANS ? — A Nation engaged in wars and commotions,... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1786 - 504 pages
...the chafte eloquence and purity oi Athens. But of the Greehwe forbear to fpeak now, as we (hall fpeak of them more fully, when we have firft confidered the Nature or Genius of thzRofnaas, AND what fort of People may we pronounce the ROM AN s ? — A Nation engaged in wars and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...But of the Greeks we forbear to fpeak now, as we mall fpeak of them more fully, when we have firlt confidered the nature or genius of the Romans. And...engaged in wars and commotions, fome foreign, fome domcitic, which for feven hundred years wholly engrofled their thoughts. Hence therefore their language... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1794 - 506 pages
...fhall fpeak of them more fully, when we have firfl confidered the Nature or Genius of the Romans. i AND what fort of People may we pronounce the ROMANS?...commotions, fome foreign,. fome domeftic, which for feven hundredyears wholly engrofled their thoughts. Hence therefore their LANGUAGE became, like their Ideas,... | |
 | English literature - 1797 - 680 pages
...Athens. But of the Greeks we furbeir to (peak now, as we , (hall (peak of them more fully, when \vc have firft confidered the nature or genius of the Romans. And what fort of people may we pro-, nounce the Romans? — A nation engaged in war, and commotions, fome foreign, fome domellic,... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1806 - 504 pages
...of them more fully, when we have first considered the Nature or Genius of the Romans. .AND what sort of People may we pronounce the ROMANS?— A Nation engaged in wars and, commotions, some foreign, some domestic, which for seven hundred years wholly engrossed their thoughts. Hence therefore... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...of them more fully, when we have first considered the nature or genius of the Romans. And what sort of people may we pronounce the Romans ? — A nation engaged in wars and commotions, some foreign, some domestic, which for seven hundred years wholly engrossed their thoughts. Hence therefore... | |
 | Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Nicole - Logic - 1818 - 448 pages
...there treated; the cruutiuu at the universe, the dwpeiisations of diviue ProvJdeuce, &c. And what sort of people may we pronounce the Romans?— A nation engaged in wars and commotions, some foreign, some domestic, which for seven hundred years wholly engrossed their thoughts — * Hence... | |
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A nation engaged in wars and commotions, some foreign, some domestic, which for seven hundred years wholly engrossed their thoughts. Hence, therefore, their language became, like their ideas, copious in all terms expressive of things political, and well... 
