The scarcity and dearness of books gave high value to that learning, which a man with a well stored and a ready and clear elocution could communicate. None without eloquence could undertake to be instructors ; so that the sophists in giving lessons of... Manual of Classical Literature - Page 492by Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1855 - 690 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Mitford - Greece - 1818 - 424 pages
...scarcity and dearness of books gave high value to that learning, which a man -man with a well-stored mind, and a ready and clear elocution, could communicate....frequented all places of public resort, the agora, the public walks, the gymnasia, and the porticoes ; where they recommended themselves to notice by an ostentatious... | |
| David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 470 pages
...The scarcity and dearness of books gave high value to that learning, which a man, with a well stored mind, and a ready and clear elocution, could communicate....example. They frequented all places of public resort, where they recommended themselves to notice, by an ostentatious display of their abilities in disputation... | |
| David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 468 pages
...learning, which a man, with a well stored mind, and a ready and clear elocution, could communicate. rNone without eloquence could undertake to be instructors,...example. They frequented all places of public resort, where they recommended themselves to notice, by an ostentatious display-ef— their abilities in disputation... | |
| David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 466 pages
...The scarcity and dearness of books gave high value to that learning, which 9. man, with a well stored mind, and a ready and clear elocution, could communicate....undertake to be instructors, so that the sophists, in giviag lessons of eloquence, were themselves the example. They frequented all places of public resort,... | |
| William Mitford - 1814 - 454 pages
...The scarcity and dearness of books gave high value to that learning, which a rtian with a well-stored mind, and a ready and clear elocution, could communicate. None, without eloquence, could undertake to be instruct tors; so that the sophists, in giving lessons of eloquence, were themselves the example. They... | |
| William Mitford - Greece - 1823 - 468 pages
...The scarcity and dearness of books gave high value to that learning, which a- man with a well-stored mind,, and a ready and clear elocution, could communicate....example. They frequented all places of public resort, the CHAP, agora, the public walks, the gymnasia, and the porv_^^^ ticoes ; where they recommended themselves... | |
| William Mitford - 1835 - 454 pages
...The scarcity and dearness of books gave high value to that learning, which a man with a well stored mind, and a ready and clear elocution, could communicate....frequented all places of public resort, the agora, the public walks, the gymnasia, and the porticoes ; where they recommended themselves to notice by an 'ostentatious... | |
| Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Art - 1841 - 806 pages
...The scarcity and dearness of books gave high valueto that learning, which a man with a well stored and a ready and clear elocution could communicate....that the sophists in giving lessons of eloquence were themselvesthe example. They frequented all places of public resort, the agora, the gymnasia, and the... | |
| Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Art, Ancient - 1844 - 780 pages
...The scarcity and dearness ot books gave high value to that learning, which a man with a well stored mind and a ready and clear elocution could communicate....instructors; so that the sophists in giving lessons ol eloquence were themselves the example. They frequented all places of public resort, the agora, the... | |
| Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Art, Ancient - 1845 - 788 pages
...science. The scarcity and dearneas of books gave high valuetotliat learning, which a man with aw*ll stored mind and a ready and clear elocution could communicate....without eloquence could undertake to be instructors; so thauthe sophists in giving lessons of eloquence were themselves the example. They frequented all places... | |
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