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" Englishman, addicted to the pursuit of knowledge, draws — his beau ideal, of human nature — his top and consummation of man's powers — is a knowledge of the Greek language. His object is not to reason, to imagine, or to invent ; but to conjugate,... "
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...human nature — his top and consummation of man's powers — is a knowledge of the Greek language. His hell anapœst in the wrong place, or the restoration of a dative case which Cranzius had passed over, and...
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Wit and Wisdom: A Selection of the Most Memorable Passages in His Writings ...

Sydney Smith - 1889 - 470 pages
...human nature — his top and consummation of man's powers — is a knowledge of the Greek language. His object is not to reason, to imagine, or to invent...which he draws for himself, are the detection of an anapaest in the wrong place, or the restoration of a dative case which Cranzius had passed over, and...
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 34

1926 - 550 pages
...Pan slept ? with whom Jupiter ? whom Apollo ravished? . . . His object is not to reason, imagine or invent, but to conjugate, decline, and derive. The situations of imaginary glory which he draws to himself are a detection of an anapest in the wrong place, or the restoration of a dative case which...
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The Greatest Works of the Greatest Authors, Ancient and Modern ...

1894 - 916 pages
...human nature — his top and consummation of man's powers — is a knowledge of the Greek language. His ers to fill up the outline. He strikes the key-note,...but, applied to the writings of Milton, it is most whic'i Cranzius had passed over, and the never dying Ernesti failed to observe." By the help of the...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern, Volume 34

Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 498 pages
...human nature — his top and consummation of man's powers — is a knowledge of the Greek language. His object is not to reason, to imagine, or to invent;...which he draws for himself are the detection of an anapaest in the wrong place, or the restoration of a dative case which Cranzius had passed over, and...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 682 pages
...human nature — his top and consummation of man's powers — is a knowledge of the Greek language. His object is not to reason, to imagine, or to invent;...which he draws for himself are the detection of an anapaest in the wrong place, or the restoration of a dative case which Cranzius had passed over, and...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 5

David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 464 pages
...the Sylburgian method of arranging defectives in <o and iu. . . . The object of the young Englishman is not to reason, to imagine, or to invent; but to...which he draws for himself are the detection of an anapest in the wrong place, or the restoration of a dative case which Cranzius had passed over, and...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 5

David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 460 pages
...derive. The situations of imaginary glory which he draws for himself are the detection of an anapest in the wrong place, or the restoration of a dative case which Cranzius had passed over, and the never-dying Ernesti fail to observe. If a young classic of this kind were to meet the greatest...
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The Intellectual Life

Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1901 - 702 pages
...human nature—his top and consummation of man's powers—is a knowledge of the Greek language. His object is not to reason, to imagine, or to invent;...which he draws for himself, are the detection of an anapaest in the wrong place, or the restoration of a dative case which Cranzius had passed over, and...
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Masterpieces of the World's Best Literature, Volume 8

Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 pages
...human nature — his top and consummation of man's powers, is a knowledge of the Greek language. His object is not to reason, to imagine, or to invent;...and derive. The situations of imaginary glory which 45 SYDNEY SMITH he draws for himself are the detection of an anapsest in the wrong place, or the restoration...
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