 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 664 pages
...was that tne courage of those sailors who manned the rude barks of the Cinque Ports first made the flag of England terrible on the seas. Then it was...learning were founded. Then was formed that language, loss musical, indeed, than the languages of the South, but in force, in richness, in aptitude for all... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 480 pages
...was that the courage of those sailors who manned the rude barks of the Cinque Ports first made the flag of England terrible on the seas. Then it was...colleges which still exist at both the great national scats of learning were founded. Then was formed that language, less musical indeed than the languages... | |
 | Claude Marcel - Foreign Language Study - 1853 - 458 pages
...adding to it are unbounded. " Less musical, indeed, than the languages of the south," says Macaulay, "but in force, in richness, in aptitude for all the...purposes of the poet, the philosopher, and the orator, it is inferior to that of Greece alone." This language would afford to the French advantages equal... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1855 - 556 pages
...was that the courage of those sailors who manned the rude barks of the Cinque Ports first mads the flag of England terrible on the seas. Then it was...the south, but in force, in richness, in aptitude foi all the highest purposes of the poet, the philosopher, and the orator, inferior to that of Greece... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...was that the courage of those sailors who manned the rude barks of the Cinque Ports first made the flag of England terrible on the seas. Then it was...the great national seats of learning were founded. '. Early in the fourteenth century the amalgamation of the races was all but complete ; and it was... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...was that the courage of those sailors who manned the rude barks of the Cinque Ports first made 6 the flag of England terrible on the seas. Then it was...which still exist at both the great national seats 7 of learning were founded. Then was formed that language, less musical indeed 8 than the languages... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - English language - 1861 - 224 pages
...this period the rise and progress of the constitution, the laws, and the navy, he adds :] " Then, too, was formed that language, less musical, indeed, than the languages of the south, hut in force, in richness, in aptitude for all the highest purposes of the poet, the philosopher, and... | |
 | African Americans - 1862 - 412 pages
...been blended with each other, and with the aboriginal tongue, still the composite language had no " aptitude for all the highest purposes of the poet, the philosopher, and the orator," until it had been enriched by contributions from the languages of Greece and Home. Take any of the... | |
 | Edward Wilmot Blyden - Black race - 1862 - 186 pages
...been blended with each other, and with the aboriginal tongue, still the composite language had no " aptitude for all the highest purposes of the poet, the philosopher, and the orator," until it had been enriched by contributions from the languages of Greece and Rome. Take any of the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1864 - 214 pages
...knowledge to be derived from the original, of the roots and formation of our noble tongue, which " in force, in richness, in aptitude for all the highest...purposes of the poet, the philosopher, and the orator, is inferior to that of Greece alone." To possess an intimate acquaintance with the poetry of Geoffrey... | |
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Ports first made the flag of England terrible on the seas. Then it was that the most ancient colleges which still exist at "both the great national seats of learning were founded. Then was formed that language, less musical indeed than the languages of... 
