| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pages
...perspicuous idiom of Mecca. In Arabia ' as well as in'Greece, the perfection of language outstripped V**~ the refinement of manners; and her speech could diversify...sword, at a time when this copious dictionary was entrusted to the memory of an illiterate people. The monuments of the Homerites were inscribed with... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 pages
...; but each, after their own, allowed a just preference to the pure and perspicuous idiom of Mecca. In Arabia as well as in Greece, the perfection of...sword, at a time when this copious dictionary was entrusted to the memory of an illiterate people. The monuments of the Homerites were inscribed with... | |
| James Mill - 1817 - 700 pages
...in point of sound, and its adaptation to poetry. Of its complete. > " * Mr. Gibbon quaintly says, " In Arabia as well as in Greece, the perfection of...sword, at a time when this copious dictionary was entrusted to the memory of an illiterate people." Hist. of Dec. and Fall, &c. ix. 240. The German professor... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 528 pages
...;q but each, after their own, allowed a just preference to the pure and perspicuous idiom of Mecca. In Arabia as well as in Greece, the perfection of...was intrusted to the memory of an illiterate people. The monuments of the Homer» Procopios (de B«ll. Persic 1. ic 16) placet the two holy monthi •bout... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 540 pages
...but each, after their own, allowed a just preference to the pure and perspicu ' ous idiom of Mecca. In Arabia as well as in Greece, the perfection of language outstripped the refinement of manr ners; and her speech could diversify the fourscore names of honey, the two hundred of a serpent,... | |
| James Mill - 1826 - 474 pages
...p. 12.) 1 Le Pere Pauliui (Bartolomeo) Voyage aux Indes, ii. 301. * Mr. Gibbon quaintly says, " Iii Arabia as well as in Greece, the perfection of language...sword, at a time when this copious dictionary was entrusted to the memory of an illiterate people." Hist, of Dec. and Fall, &c. ix. 240. The German professor... | |
| James Mill - 1840 - 556 pages
...aux Indes, ii. 201. a Mr. Gibbon quaintly says, " lu Arabia as well as in Greece, the per. fection of language outstripped the refinement of manners...intrusted to the memory of an illiterate people." Hist. of Dec. and Fall, &c. ix. 240. The German professor Forster, who writes notes on the Voyage du... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 550 pages
...;(39) but each after their own, allowed a just preference to the pure and perspicuous idiom of Mecca. In Arabia as well as in Greece, the perfection of...serpent, the five hundred of a lion, the thousand of a su-ord, at a time when this copious dictionary was intrusted to the memory of яп illiterate people.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1844 - 546 pages
...;('•>'•)) but each after their own, allowed a just preference to the pure and perspicuous idiom of Mecca. In Arabia as well as in Greece, the perfection of...could diversify the fourscore names of honey, the tu o hundred of a serpent, the five hundred of a lion, the thousand of a sword, at a time when this... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1847 - 542 pages
...;('J9) but each alter their own, allowed a just preference to the pure and perspicuous idiom of Mecca. In Arabia as well as in Greece, the perfection of...this copious dictionary was intrusted to the memory oí an illiterate people. The monuments of the Momentes were inscribed with an obsolete and mysterious... | |
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