 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...conversant with both ; and it was almost impossible, in any province, to find a Roman subject, of a liberal education, who was at once a stranger to the...language. It was by such institutions that the nations of siav«» the empire insensibly melted away into the Roman name and people. But there still remained,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...conversant with both ; and it was almost impossible, in any province, to find a Roman subject, of a liberal education, who was at once a stranger to the Greek and to the Latin language. suves. it was by such institutions that the nations of the empire insensibly melted away into the Roman... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1827 - 608 pages
...Greek, they asserted the dig' nity of the Latin tongue; and the exclusive use of the latter w;is ' inflexibly maintained in the administration of civil...pedantry' — we use the term as a quotation from his opponents — has been made the subject of sneer and sarcasm, by those who had nothing better to oppose... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Greece - 1828 - 516 pages
...equally conversant with both ; and it was almost impossible in any province, to find a Roman subject of a liberal education, who was at once a stranger to the Greek and Italian languages.* From this period, the history of Greece becomes imperfect, and as it became a Roman... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Greece - 1828 - 516 pages
...equally conversant with both ; and it was almost impossible in any province, to find a Roman subject of a liberal education, who was at once a stranger to the Greek and Italian languages.* From this period, the history of Greece becomes imperfect, and as it became a Roman... | |
 | Christianity - 1827 - 614 pages
...exclusive use of the latter was ' inflexibly maintained in the administration of civil as well as rnili' tary government. The two languages exercised at the...pedantry' — we use the term as a quotation from his opponents — has been made the subject of sneer and sarcasm, .by those who had nothing better to oppose... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1837 - 1304 pages
...in any province, to find a Roman subject, of a liberal education, who was at once a stranger to tlie Greek and to the Latin language. It was by such institutions...insensibly melted away into the Roman name and people. But there still remained, in the centre of every province and of every family, an unhappy condition... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 pages
...conversant with bo(h ; and it was almost impossible, in any province, to find a Roman subject, of a liberal education, who was at once a stranger to the...Latin language. It was by such institutions that the «д1ТС, nations of the empire insensibly melted away into the Roman name and people. But there still... | |
 | D. Davidson - Christianity - 1844 - 284 pages
...conversant with both ; and it was almost impossible, in any province, to find a Roman subject, of a liberal education, who was at once a stranger to the Greek and to the Latin lauguages. The Romans, we have seen, adopted not only the language, but also the literature, arts,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1846 - 678 pages
...conversant with both ; and it was almost impossible, in any province, to find a Roman subject, of a liberal education, who was at once a stranger to the...It was by such institutions that the nations of the 8laves. J . , empire msensibly melted away mto the Roman name and people. But there still remained,... | |
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... the latter as the legal dialect of public transactions. Those who united letters with business were equally conversant with both; and it was almost impossible, in any province, to find a Roman subject of a liberal education, who was at once a stranger... 
