The Quarterly Review, Volumen 120John Murray, 1866 |
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... Greek , a language capable of almost infinite variety , a language spoken for two thousand years by nations of as many different tempers and manners , opinions and institutions , as covered the face of the ancient world , from the ...
... Greek , a language capable of almost infinite variety , a language spoken for two thousand years by nations of as many different tempers and manners , opinions and institutions , as covered the face of the ancient world , from the ...
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... Greek chisel from the limbs added to restore it , or an Etruscan from a Wedgwood vase ; much less if he professed indiscriminate admiration for all alike , and replied to a purist , that the general impression of their beauty was all he ...
... Greek chisel from the limbs added to restore it , or an Etruscan from a Wedgwood vase ; much less if he professed indiscriminate admiration for all alike , and replied to a purist , that the general impression of their beauty was all he ...
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... Greeks ; the confusion of letters joined together in the ancient copies ; the mistakes in deciphering con- tracted writing and conventional signs ; the conjectures made to supply illegible words and erasures , and to fill up or close up ...
... Greeks ; the confusion of letters joined together in the ancient copies ; the mistakes in deciphering con- tracted writing and conventional signs ; the conjectures made to supply illegible words and erasures , and to fill up or close up ...
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... Greek grammarians ! know your Author of something yet more great than Letter ; While tow'ring o'er your Alphabet , like Saul , Stands our Digamma , and o'ertops them all . ' Tis true , on Words is still our whole debate , Disputes of Me ...
... Greek grammarians ! know your Author of something yet more great than Letter ; While tow'ring o'er your Alphabet , like Saul , Stands our Digamma , and o'ertops them all . ' Tis true , on Words is still our whole debate , Disputes of Me ...
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... Greek literature has suffered to so great an extent from two of the commonest forms of corruption , the additions made by ignorant correctors , and the mistakes in the endings of words . The reason of this he finds in the probability ...
... Greek literature has suffered to so great an extent from two of the commonest forms of corruption , the additions made by ignorant correctors , and the mistakes in the endings of words . The reason of this he finds in the probability ...
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