History Of The Greek Language
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| Proto-Greek (c. 3000–1600 BC) Read more about History Of The Greek Language: Origins, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek Dialects, Koine Greek, Medieval, Modern Greek Famous quotes containing the words history of the, history of, history, greek and/or language:“Tell me of the height of the mountains of the moon, or of the diameter of space, and I may believe you, but of the secret history of the Almighty, and I shall pronounce thee mad.” “The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?” “History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning of things, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,—when did burdock and plantain sprout first?” “All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.” “Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.” |