 | Charles Thomas-Stanford - 1912 - 380 דפים
...world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages has come to us from the shores of the MediterAraby's Daughter ranean." The Doctor's aspirations were doubtless confined to its northern shore.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 דפים
...world; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. — All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." The General observed, that "the Mediterranean would be a noble subject for a poem." I introduced Aristotle's... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 דפים
...world; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. — All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." 35 A literary lady of large fortune was mentioned, as one who did good to many, but by no means "by... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 דפים
...world; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. — All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." 35 A literary lady of large fortune was mentioned, as one who did good to many, but by no means "by... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 דפים
...the corner. Johnson was careless of his Anglo-Saxon origins. " All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean," he wrote a generation before a Corsican lawyer's son renewed the world through the incomparable lucidity... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 544 דפים
...world — the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman: all our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean,' There are few, we imagine, who have not felt the justice of this observation ; and it may perhaps be... | |
 | H. W. F. Saggs - 356 דפים
...world; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.' The good Doctor's geography has stood the test of subsequent discovery better than his history. The... | |
 | Stephen J. Spignesi - 2003 - 388 דפים
...his not having seen what it is expected a man should see ... all our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean. — JAMES BOSWELL The Life of Samuel Johnson CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi INTRODUCTION xiii 1. Galileo... | |
 | Clare Haynes - 2006 - 252 דפים
...world; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of Mediterranean.1 Johnson's recognition of Italy as the main artery of culture, through which the influences... | |
 | Vojtech Jirat-Wasiuty?ski, Anne Elizabeth Dymond, Vojt?ch Jirat-Wasiuty?ski - 2007 - 337 דפים
...world; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.'4 Significantly, the English writer puts the glory of these empires in the past tense,... | |
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The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost... 
