 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - Liczba stron: 506
...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 recollection, that Isocrates t43 was the companion of Plato and Xenophon ; that he assisted, perhaps with the historian Thucydides,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - Liczba stron: 696
...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, at... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - Liczba stron: 508
...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 recollection, that Isocrates"3 was the companion of Plato and Xenophon ; that he assisted, perhaps with the historian... | |
 | 1840 - Liczba stron: 876
...snake" or an Alexandrine verse would have been as useful. But he, feeling himself wanted, laid his length down like a rail-road, exactly where he could...Pericles, and his negative pole towards Alexander. Even Gibbon—even the frosty Gibbon — condescends to be pleased with this seasonable application of his... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - Liczba stron: 706
...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, at... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - Liczba stron: 486
...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, that Isocrates* was the companion of Plato and Xenophon; that he assisted, perhaps with the historian Thucydides, at... | |
 | 1836 - Liczba stron: 332
...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 recollection, that Isocrates was the companion of Plato and Xenophon ; that he assisted, perhaps, with the historian Thucydides,... | |
 | 1840 - Liczba stron: 1522
...snake" or an Alexandrine verse would have been as useful. But he, feeling himself wanted, laid his length down like a rail-road, exactly where he could...chapter, " of the dignity of human nature is exalted f by the simple recollection, that Isocrates was the companion of Plato and Xenophon ; that he assisted,... | |
 | 1840 - Liczba stron: 880
...with his positivo pole towards Pericles, and his negativo pole towards Alexander. Even Gibbon—even the frosty Gibbon — condescends to be pleased with...chapter, " of the dignity of human nature is" exalted t by the simple recollection, that Isocrates was the companion of Plato and Xenophon ; that he assisted,... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - Liczba stron: 224
...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 recollection, that Isocrates was the companion of Plato and Xenophon ; that he assisted, perhaps, with the historian Thucydides,... | |
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A wounded snake' or an Alexandrine verse would have been as useful. But he, feeling himself wanted, laid his length down like a railroad, exactly where he could be useful — with his positive pole towards Pericles, and his negative pole towards Alexander.... 
