 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 506 Seiten
...Sicily; and these studies ° enf' became the patrimony of a city whose inhabitants, about thirty thousand males, condensed, within the period of a single life,...nature, is exalted by the simple recollection, that Isocrates t43 was the companion of Plato and Xenophon ; that he assisted, perhaps with the historian... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 446 Seiten
...and these studies became the patrimony of a city whose inhabitants, about thirty thousand males, y .+ condensed, within the period of a single life, the...nature is exalted by the simple recollection, that Isocrates* was the companion of Plato and Xenophon ; that he assisted, perhaps with the historian Thucydides,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 696 Seiten
...architecture and sculpture, advanced with rapid steps towards perfection: "our sense," says Gibbon, " of the dignity of human nature, is exalted by the simple recollection, that Isocrates was the companion of Plato and Xennphon; that he assisted perhaps witli the historian Thucydides,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 508 Seiten
...millions. Our sense of the dignity of human nature, is exalted by the simple recollection, that Isocrates"3 was the companion of Plato and Xenophon ; that he assisted, perhaps with the historian Thucydidcs, at the first representations of the Oedipus of Sophocles and the Iphigenia of Euripides... | |
 | 1840 - 876 Seiten
...is "exalted f by the simple recollection, that Isocrates was the companion of Plato and Xenophoo ; that he assisted, perhaps with the historian Thucydides,...(Edipus of Sophocles and the Iphigenia of Euripides." . So far in relation to the upper terminus of the long man; next, with reference * '' Officers and... | |
 | Joseph Delaplaine - 1818 - 30 Seiten
...when compared with the rich trophy conveyed in the historian's record, that the inhabitants of Athens condensed, within the period of a single life, the genius of ages and millions! The library of Hadrian was embellished with the choicest pictures and statues; and so great was the... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 706 Seiten
...architecture and sculptures, advanced with rapid steps towards perfection; " our sense," says Gibbon, '; of the dignity of human nature, is exalted by the simple recollection, . that Isocrates was the companion of Plato and Xenophon; that he assisted perhaps with the historian Thucydides,... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1824 - 430 Seiten
...of the dignity of ' human nature is," he says, " exalted by the simple recollec' tion, thatlsocrates was the companion of Plato and Xenophon; ' that he...Thucydides, at ' the first representations of the CEdipus of Sophocles, and the ' Iphigenia of Euripides ; and his pupils TEschines and De' mosthenes... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 Seiten
...Sicily; and 0 these studies became the patrimony of a city whose inhabitants, about thirty thousand males, condensed, within the period of a single life, the genius of age and millions. Our sense of the dignity of human. nature is exalted by the simple recollection,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 522 Seiten
...of Sicily; and these studies became the patrimony of a city whose inhabitants, about thirty thousand males, condensed, within the period of a single life,...of Plato and Xenophon ; that he assisted, perhaps wim the historian Thucydides, at the first representations of the Œdipus of Sophocles and the Iphigenia... | |
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Sicily ; and these studies became the patrimony of a city whose inhabitants, about thirty thousand males, condensed, within the period of a single life, the genius of ages and millions. Our sense of the dignity of human nature is exalted by the simple... 
