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...language, penetrated every part of it with the spirit, and nowhere left a dead, inert mass behind it — of a people which, in spite of its decisive abhorrence...', The Hellenes must have received this material of Ian- ' guage while it was yet a plastic form ; otherwise they could never have succeeded in expressing...

...language, penetrated every part of it with the spirit, and nowhere left a dead, inert mass behind it — of a people which, in spite of its decisive abhorrence...there is no trace of tumidity or of inert matter, $nd all is power and life. Tb^Hellenes must have received, this material of language while it was yet...

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...utterance in a language which in strength and grace has been compared to the body of a well-trained athlete, " in which every muscle, every sinew, is...into full play, where there is no trace of tumidity and of inert matter, and all is power and life." The Greek mythology, already tending vaguely into...

...symmetrical, transparent and flexible in form, than the Greek tongue. It has been well said that it " resembles the body of an artistically trained athlete,...of inert matter, and all is power and life."* The verb, with its 1200 inflections, can express every point of time, every phase or mood of mind, can...

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...and symmetry and in perfection of sound, is itself, though a spontaneous creation, a work of art. " The whole language resembles the body of an artistically...or of inert matter, and all is power and life." The great variety of the spiritual gifts of this people, the severest formulas of science, the loftiest...

...art. " The whole language resembles the of an artistically trained athlete, in which every muscle, e sinew, is developed into full play, where there is no trace of tu ity or of inert matter, and all is power and life." The great va of the spiritual gifts of this...

...multiplicity of the notions of time, its point and duration, and the completeness of an action in itself. The whole language resembles the body of an artistically...developed into full play, where there is no trace of timidity or of inert matter, and all is power and life.' * There is something analogous to this in...