Autobiographic SketchesJames Hogg & Sons, 1854 - 352 sider |
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Side 35
... Greek use what we mean properly by purple , and could not mean it in the Pindaric passage ; much oftener it denotes some shade of crimson , or else of puniceus , or blood - red . Gibbon was never more mistaken than when he argued that ...
... Greek use what we mean properly by purple , and could not mean it in the Pindaric passage ; much oftener it denotes some shade of crimson , or else of puniceus , or blood - red . Gibbon was never more mistaken than when he argued that ...
Side 36
... Greeks and Romans as degrees of affinity and consanguinity are everywhere . My son - in - law , says a woman , and she means my step - son . My cousin , she says , and she means any mode of relationship in the wide , wide world . Nos ...
... Greeks and Romans as degrees of affinity and consanguinity are everywhere . My son - in - law , says a woman , and she means my step - son . My cousin , she says , and she means any mode of relationship in the wide , wide world . Nos ...
Side 40
... Greek . Latin is a privileged dialect in Parliament . But Greek ! It would not have been at all more startling to the usages of the House , had his lord- ship quoted Persic or Telinga . Still , though felt as something verging on the ...
... Greek . Latin is a privileged dialect in Parliament . But Greek ! It would not have been at all more startling to the usages of the House , had his lord- ship quoted Persic or Telinga . Still , though felt as something verging on the ...
Side 41
... Greek : - " Ton d ' apameibomenos prosephé kreiōn Agamemnon ; " or , again , according to the circumstances : - " But him sternly surveying saluted the swift - footed Achilles ; " " Ton d'ar , ' upodra idon , prosephé podas okus ...
... Greek : - " Ton d ' apameibomenos prosephé kreiōn Agamemnon ; " or , again , according to the circumstances : - " But him sternly surveying saluted the swift - footed Achilles ; " " Ton d'ar , ' upodra idon , prosephé podas okus ...
Side 42
... Greek ( so suitable to the occasion ) was also the one sole morsel of Greek that everybody in that assembly understood , the effect , as may be supposed , was overwhelming , and wrapt the whole House in what might be called a fiery ...
... Greek ( so suitable to the occasion ) was also the one sole morsel of Greek that everybody in that assembly understood , the effect , as may be supposed , was overwhelming , and wrapt the whole House in what might be called a fiery ...
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