 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 394 pages
...learning. His credit was ennobled into fame ; his riches were dedicated to the service of mankind; he corresponded at once with Cairo and London, and a cargo of fcnd particularly of history, but also a great encourager of it in others. From the dreadful overthrow... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bibliographical literature - 1814 - 576 pages
...learning. His credit was ennobled into fame ; his riches were dedicated to the service of mankind ; he corresponded at once with Cairo and London , and a cargo of Indian spices and Greek books were often imported in the same vessel." (Gibbon's Decl. and Fall, vol. XII. p. 1 36. ) " As the natural... | |
 | England - 1861 - 814 pages
...agents, who sent him goods too precious to be resold even at a profit. " He corresponded," says Gibbon, " at once with Cairo and London, and a cargo of Indian spices and Greek books were often imported by the same vessel." The Bodleian started with a collection which had cost Sir... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...learning : his credit was ennobled into fame; his riches were dedicated to the service of mankind; he corresponded at once with Cairo and London ; and...distress was entitled to relief, and merit to reward: his leisure hours were delightfully spent in the Platonic academy: he encouraged the emulation of Demetrius... | |
 | Edmund Dorr Griffin - Europe - 1831 - 478 pages
...science and the arts. His agents at the same time purchased merchandise and collected manuscripts ; and a cargo of Indian spices and Greek books was often imported in the same vessel. He opened an academy, devoted to instruction in the philosophy of Plato ; he established the Laurentian... | |
 | Robert Jennings - 1832 - 432 pages
...in existence. " He corresponded," says the historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, " at once with Cairo and London, and a cargo of Indian...Greek books was often imported in the same vessel." His example was followed by other wealthy citizens ; but Cosmo united their collections to his, and... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - English literature - 1836 - 488 pages
...learning. His credit was ennobled into fame ; his riches were dedicated to the service of mankind; he corresponded at once with Cairo and London, and a cargo of Indian spices and Greek books was import ed in the same vessel. The genius and education of his grandson, Lorenzo, rendered him not only... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1839 - 932 pages
...learning : his credit was ennobled into fame; his riches were dedicated to the service of mankind: he corresponded at once with Cairo and London ; and...Greek books was often imported in the same vessel. In his palace distress was entitled to relief, and merit to reward ; his leisure hours were delightfully... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 524 pages
...learning : his credit was ennobled into fame; his riches were dedicated to the service of mankind: he corresponded at once with Cairo and London ; and...Greek books was often imported in the same vessel. In his palace distress was entitled to relief, and merit to reward ; his leisure hours were delightfully... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1844 - 536 pages
...learning; his credit was ennobled into fame ; his riches were dedicated to the service of mankind : he corresponded at once with Cairo and London ; and...Greek books was often imported in the same vessel. In his palace distress was entitled to relief, and merit to reward : his leisure hours were delightfully... | |
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Medicis was the father of a line of princes, whose name and age are almost synonymous with the restoration of learning: his credit was ennobled into fame; his riches were dedicated to the service of mankind ; he corresponded at once with Cairo and London... 
