We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis, of our ancestors, would have spread no illumination with her arms, and we might... Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ... - עמוד 509נערך על ידי - 1880 - 573 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 766 דפים
...ruin, is something perfectly inexplicable to a mere spectator of the shows of this mortal scene. We arc all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 690 דפים
...their ruin, is something perfectly inexplicable to a mere spectator of the shews of this mortal scene. We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Home, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 246 דפים
...ruin — is something perfectly inexplicable to a mere spectator of the shows of this mortal scene. We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece, Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors,... | |
| Great Britain. Board of Education - 1898 - 724 דפים
...in his preface to " Hellas " (1821) are inspired by the same feeling of devotion to the Greek ideal. "We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece. But for Greece—Home the instructor, the conqueror or the metropolis of our ancestors,... | |
| National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - 1902 - 1040 דפים
...Iliad) is the real overture to modern history. Indeed, Shelley was more than half right when he said: "We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our...religion, our arts — have their roots in Greece." And John Stuart Mill, after indorsing the doctrine that "The true ancestors of the European nations... | |
| National Education Association of the United States - 1902 - 1042 דפים
...Iliad) is the real overture to modern history. Indeed, Shelley was more than half right when he said : " We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts — have their roots in Greece." And John Stuart Mill, after indorsing the doctrine that "The true ancestors of the European nations... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1904 - 434 דפים
...their ruin, is something perfectly inexplicable to a mere spectator of the shows of this mortal scene. We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors,... | |
| Iōannēs Gennadios - 1904 - 98 דפים
...Greek in its origin, was, in a way,. anticipated by Shelley (Preface to " Hellas ") when he wrote : " We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece. But for Greece, Rome — the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 948 דפים
...their ruin, is something perfectly inexplicable to a mere spectator of the shows of this mortal scene. We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors,... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1910 - 150 דפים
...which is not Greek in its origin." Listen to what Shelley says in the Preface to his ' Hellas ' : " We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors,... | |
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