 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...  Paths from Ancient Greece - Pagina 1geredigeerd door - 1988 - 206 pagina’sGedeeltelijke weergave - Over dit boek
 | Argyro Loukaki - 2008 - 392 pagina’s
...assumptions about Greek heritage's importance will become clear later. Westerners, Ancient and Modern Greece We are all Greeks - our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece. Rome would have spread no illumination with her arms and we might still... | |
 | 1954 - 398 pagina’s
...spiritual progress, it is also a kind of extended paraphrase and addendum to Shelley's sentimental verdict: "We are all Greeks; our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece." For upon the basic ideals of Greece in their Adienian form — freedom, optimism, secularism, rationalism,... | |
 | 1904 - 586 pagina’s
...not 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,... | |
 | Shelley Society - 1886 - 154 pagina’s
...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 — Koine, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors,... | |
 | John T. Kirby - 2000 - 200 pagina’s
...The shift has been rather quick. "We are all Greeks," wrote Shelley in his 1822 preface to Hellas; "Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their roots in Greece." By 1920, TS Eliot could write: The Classics have, during the latter part of the nineteenth century... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1911 - 568 pagina’s
...indivisible. Because of the larger truth we can pardon the untruth in Shelley's enthusiastic utterance : " We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have all their root in Greece." We are all Latins in our sense of social solidarity inwrought with our allegiance... | |
 | 1924 - 856 pagina’s
...Nation. THE PAGEANT OF GREECE Edited by R. \V. LIVINGSTONE With 12 illustrations Net $2.75 "We arc all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece" (Shelley). This book, containing specimens in translation of the greatest work of the... | |
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