A View of the Arts And Sciences From the Earliest Times to the Age of Alexander
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In him we behold fuch wonderful powers of argument; fuch ftrong and nervous expreffions; and on proper occafions fuch bold and animated addreffes to the paflions, that the reader refts fatisfied ; convinced that in him there is nothing either deficient or re- dundant. This great man employed his fuperior talents in a glorious attempt to relume the ex- piring virtue of his country, and for fome time fuf* pended her fall.
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s, who holds the fecond rank, is more figu- rative and diffufe; i...nferior to Demofthenes in the vioourand itrength of his genius, inftead of inform- ing the underflanding, or moving the paflions, he too frequently plays with the imagination.
Plato, the prince of moral philofophers, holds a diftinguifhed place among orators ; and I believe I Ihould not go too far, to affirm, that the funeral oration of Menexenus, is the nobleft profe compo- Ction that ever flowed from an uninfpired pen.
It may not be amifs to obferve in this place, that fuch is the excellence of the Greek Language, that it is equally adapted to every fubjeft treated of by the authors I have juft now mentioned ; and we may venture to affert, that in poetry, hiftory, and eloquence of every kind, the Greeks in the age of Alexander the Great, were infinitely our fupcriors.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In him we behold fuch wonderful powers of argument; fuch ftrong and nervous expreffions; and on proper occafions fuch bold and animated addreffes to the paflions, that the reader refts fatisfied ; convinced that in him there is nothing either deficient or re- dundant. This great man employed his fuperior talents in a glorious attempt to relume the ex- piring virtue of his country, and for fome time fuf* pended her fall.
LANGUAGE.
s, who holds the fecond rank, is more figu- rative and diffufe; i...nferior to Demofthenes in the vioourand itrength of his genius, inftead of inform- ing the underflanding, or moving the paflions, he too frequently plays with the imagination.
Plato, the prince of moral philofophers, holds a diftinguifhed place among orators ; and I believe I Ihould not go too far, to affirm, that the funeral oration of Menexenus, is the nobleft profe compo- Ction that ever flowed from an uninfpired pen.
It may not be amifs to obferve in this place, that fuch is the excellence of the Greek Language, that it is equally adapted to every fubjeft treated of by the authors I have juft now mentioned ; and we may venture to affert, that in poetry, hiftory, and eloquence of every kind, the Greeks in the age of Alexander the Great, were infinitely our fupcriors.
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