 A young man, whatever his genius may be, is no judge of such a writer as Thucydides. I had no high opinion of him ten years ago. I have now been reading him with a mind accustomed to historical researches and to political affairs, and I am astonished...  Notes - Page viby Thucydides - 1881Full view - About this book
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 pages
...great measure lost, and cannot easily be recovered. Accordingly, almost all the ideas that people have of Greek literature, are ideas formed while they were...been reading him with a mind accustomed to historical researches, and to political affairs ; and I am astonished at my own former blindness, and at his greatness.... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Fine bindings - 1876 - 502 pages
...cannot easily be recovered. Accordingly, almost all the ideas that people have of Greek literature, arc ideas formed while they were still very young. A young...whatever his genius may be, is no judge of such a Avriter as Thucydides. I had no high opinion of him ten years ago. I have now been reading him with... | |
 | Richard Dacre Archer-Hind, Robert Drew Hicks - Classical literature - 1899 - 518 pages
...Accordingly, almost all the ideas that people have of Greek literature are ideas formed while they are still very young. A young man, whatever his genius...been reading him with a mind accustomed to historical researches, and to political affairs ; and I am astonished at my own former blindness, and at his greatness.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - 680 pages
...great measure lost, and cannot easily be recovered. Accordingly, almost all the ideas that people have of Greek literature are ideas formed while they were...been reading him with a mind accustomed to historical researches and to political affairs, and I am astonished at my own former blindness, and at his greatness.... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - Letter-writing - 1908 - 312 pages
...great measure lost, and cannot easily be recovered. Accordingly, almost all the ideas that people have of Greek literature, are ideas formed while they were...been reading him with a mind accustomed to historical researches, and to political affairs; and I am astonished at my own former blindness, and at his greatness.... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - Great Britain - 1909 - 370 pages
...great measure lost, and cannot easily be recovered. Accordingly, almost all the ideas that people have of Greek literature are ideas formed while they were...been reading him with a mind accustomed to historical researches and to political affairs and I am astonished at my own former blindness and at his greatness."... | |
 | Classical philology - 1916 - 594 pages
...Thucydides. It is the ne plus ultra of human art." "A young man," he wrote in February of the same year, "whatever his genius may be, is no judge of such a...been reading him with a mind accustomed to historical researches and to political affairs, and I am astounded at my former blindness, and at his greatness."... | |
 | Classical philology - 1916 - 612 pages
...Thucydides. It is the ne plus ultra of human art." "A young man," he wrote in February of the same year, "whatever his genius may be, is no judge of such a...been reading him with a mind accustomed to historical researches and to political affairs, and I am astounded at my former blindness, and at his greatness."... | |
 | Richard Winn Livingstone - English literature - 1924 - 474 pages
...are mature. Most people read all the Greek that they ever read before they are five-and-twenty. ... A young man, whatever his genius may be, is no judge...been reading him with a mind accustomed to historical researches and to political affairs ; and I am astonished at my own former blindness, and at his greatness.... | |
 | Hastings Rashdall - 1877 - 596 pages
...Accordingly, almost all the ideas that people have of Greek literature arc ideas formed while they wen; still very young. A young man, whatever his genius may be, is no judge of such a writer as Thucydidcs. I had no high opinion of him ten years ago. I have now been reading him with a mind accustomed... | |
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