Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1831. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... the Academia of antiquity in which the intellect may imbibe every description of learning, where the' departments of physics, morals, philosophy, poetry and eloquence are found in their various and diversified provinces. Our own language is established on the classic etymology, concise and regular by the intermixture of the Latin, softened and beautified by the melody of the Greek. The best and most illustrious authors of modern times are instructed in the classical school, and there derive knowledge and materials by which they build a superstructure of mental greatness that shall survive the delapidations and the consuming ravages of time. In many respects we are the pupils of those ancient preceptors who stand between the pillars of the Minervian temple and roll the language of wisdom and science to future posterity. Amongst this intellectual community we behold Theophrastus and Pythagoras in Ethics and Morality. Xenophon, Thucydides, and Herodotus, in History. Plato, Aristotle, and Xenophon, in Philosophy. Dionysius and Aristotle in Criticism. Demosthenes, Lysia, and Socrates, in Rhetoric. Homer, Theocritus, Anacreon, and Pindar in Poetry. In the opposite corner of this Grecian phalanx, we behold the Roman schoolmen. Virgil, Horace and Ovid in Poetry; Livy, Caesar, and Tacitus as Historians; Cicero in Rhetoric and Quintilian in Criticism. Behind this assemblage there are minor prodigies in their various systems of science and learning, who, scattered among the more magnificent prodigies in the hemisphere of mind, contribute to the complicated splendours which shed their lustre over the regions of the world. By an acquaintance with Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato, we discover an extensive field of moral science, unfolding the loftiest sentiment, the sublimest i...
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