| Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 588 דפים
...the schools ; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise...powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind. The_ beauties of the poets and orators, instead of kindling a fire like their own, inspired only cold... | |
| William Nelson Pendleton - 1860 - 362 דפים
...in the schools, and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise...the powers or enlarge the limits of the human mind." And this continued till, as decline progressed, he adds more emphatically, "the Roman world was indeed... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 668 דפים
...the writer-of original genius, unless, perhap* Plutarch ? or even of a ntyle really i legant ? — M. precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers,...enlarge the limits, of the human mind. The beauties of tho poets and orators, instead of kindling a fire like their own, inspired only cold and servile imitations... | |
| David Graham - 1908 - 410 דפים
...transmitted with blind deference, from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every genuine attempt to exercise the powers or enlarge the limits of the human mind. . . . The name of poet was almost forgotten; that of orator was usurped by the Sophists. A cloud of critics,... | |
| Harold James - 2006 - 192 דפים
...in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise...powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind. ... A cloud of critics, of compilers, of commentators, darkened the face of learning, and the decline... | |
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