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...much before hand may be Epistl’d; that Chorus is here introduc’d after the Greek manner, not antient only but modern, and still in use among the It... ...fame. The measure of Verse us’d in the Chorus is of all sorts, call’d by the Greeks Monostrophic, or rather Apolelymenon, without regard had to Str... ...ave brought Dishonour, obloquie, and op’t the mouths Of Idolists, and Atheists; have brought scandal To Israel, diffidence of God, and doub...

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...as a natural consequence of their eccentricities; they were, moreover, all atheists, and people should be very careful not to admit them into their ho... ...of Sciences, produces this impor- tant result, sought by the ancients,—the Greeks, the Ro- mans, and all Northern nations,—to whom the preserva- tion ... ...and old alike. We can say to the old man, ‘Ha, monsieur! the ancients, the Greeks and Romans, knew a thing or two, and were not so stupid as some woul... ...says he will be a great man; he has a mind like Voltaire.” “An author? all atheists.” “Let’s put him down, papa; we want more dancers. Be- sides, he w... ...passionate, ready to subscribe for the children of General Foy, or for the Greeks, whose piracies it knows nothing about, or the Exiles until none rem...

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...ct he studied no science without advancing it. In youth he learned Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, also the oriental languages, with which he became so fami... ...n your societies. Just as Number— the only thing in which your self-styled atheists believe— 91 Balzac organized physical creations, so arithmetic, i...

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...e one is an atheist and the other Catholic.” “Can there be such a thing as atheists?” cried Theodose, with all the signs of extreme wonderment. “Could... ... own name, if we wanted to discuss it, might be said to be a loan from the Greek language.” “Very likely; at any rate we have the advantage of being k... ...on, attracted by the noise of the bell, and attired in a dressing-gown and Greek cap, came out of his study to inquire what was the matter. After a sp... ...d Thuillier, with embarrassment; “something about registry fees,—it is all Greek to me, I can’t comprehend their scrawls.” “And they chose,” said la P... ..., my son is not an atheist; for Voltaire himself doubted if there could be atheists; and no later than yesterday, in this house, an ecclesiastic, as a... ...ipodes of savage life, when it said and wrote: ‘l’Etat po- lice,’ from the Greek words state and city. So, I can assure you, we care little for the pr...

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...s! If that creature wanted to-night one of the infamous books in which the atheists of the present day scoff at holy things, Calyste would saddle his ... ...he circum- spect history of a young ladies’ boarding-school, the Latin and Greek of seminaries, the literature of the dead languages, and to a very re... ... his evident weariness to passing excitement. Calyste was as handsome as a Greek god, and handsome with- out conceit; in the first place, he had his m... ...ack hair shone, escaping here and there. A short upper garment made like a Greek peplum gave to view a pair of cambric trousers with embroidered frill...

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... quick enough, as Cicero writes, to quell both the desperate wits of other atheists, and the open way of defaming, as the event showed. Of other se... ...s much may give us light after what sort of books were prohibited among the Greeks. The Romans also, for many ages trained up only to a militar... ...aul, who were skilful in all the learning of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Greeks, which could not probably be without reading their books of all s... ...ught it no defilement to insert into Holy Scripture the sentences of three Greek poets, and one of them a tragedian; the question was notwithstan...

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...proprietary eye of the man who knows his constellations down to the little Greek letters. I imagine his exclamation. He would at first doubt his eyes.... ... he deadens rather than stimulates.** An infinitude of nonsense about the Greek mind would never have been writ- ten if the distinctive intellectual ... ... its politico- social instability, had been borne in mind. The food of the Greek imagination was the very antithesis of our own nour- ishment. We are ... ...med with just one clear coloured line, as finely placed as the member of a Greek capi- tal; the door handles and the lines of the panels of the door, ... ...ges do not seem to carry conviction; what our ances- tors did, or what the Greeks or Egyptians did, though it is the direct physical cause of the mode... ...you can say about Herbert Spencer, vivisectors, mate- rialistic Science or Atheists, applies without correction to me. Begbie away! But now you think ...

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...eligious thoughts. Nay, it has been common to class him amongst deliberate atheists; and some well known anecdotes are cur- rent in books, which illus... ...farther than Cicero, and other great contemporaries, who assuredly were no atheists. One mark perhaps of the wide interval which, in Cæsar’s age, had ... ...ome is represented as a very small kind of sparrow, but which, both to the Greeks and the Romans, was known by a name im- plying a regal station (prob... ... oppressive; the establishment of vast and comprehensive public libraries, Greek as well as Latin; the chastisement of Dacia; the conquest of Parthia;... ... and a fact which we have nowhere seen noticed, that the ancients, whether Greeks or Romans, had no eye for the picturesque; nay, that it was a sense ... ...sleep, “quasi 99 Thomas de Quincey dormiret, spiritum reddidit;” or, as a Greek author expresses it, kat iso hypno to malakotato. He was one of those...

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...rute: That present times have no pretence To virtue, in the noble sense By Greeks and Romans understood, To perish for our country’s good. She named t... ...s past. Were future happiness and pain A mere contrivance of the brain, As Atheists argue, to entice, And fit their proselytes for vice (The only comf... ...angerous design lurk under it. Nothing can be more notorious than that the Atheists, Deists, Socinians, Anti Trinitarians, and other subdivisions of F...

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...s and certain Saints, who, in our day, would be regarded as heresiarchs or atheists. He was rigidly calm during the ser- vices. His own prayers went u... ...taken for its share the new humanity. He thought that the mythology of the Greeks was borrowed both from the Hebrew Scriptures and from the sacred Boo... ...scover whether we are inseparable from the future. “We have been Deists or Atheists in one direction only. “Is the world eternal? Was the world create...

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...o intricate in him as in Hamlet, he was not nearly so conscious. The whole Greek life was based on the idea of the supremacy of the self, and the self... ... murdered Agamemnon, it was as if a common individual murdered God, to the Greek. But Agamemnon, King and Lord, was not infallible. He was fallible. H... ...most foolish, with its prating gods. But it means that, ac- cording to the Greek conviction, Orestes was right and Clytemnestra entirely wrong. But fo... ...e few women slip away home. In the little theatre bar the well-to-do young atheists are having another drink. Not that they spend much. A tumbler of w...

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...e is a godless woman of the world,” would Mr. Crawley say; “she lives with atheists and Frenchmen. My mind shud- ders when I think of her awful, awful... ... Hawky. Either of these young ladies is perfectly qualified to instruct in Greek, Latin, and the rudiments of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in S... ... Bute followed the track of Sharp and his daughter back to the lodgings in Greek Street, which the defunct painter had occupied; and where por- traits...

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.............. 56 FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION. .............................................................................. 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. .................................................................................................................... 58 PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR .................................................................

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................................................................. 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. ............................................................ ...ER O MER O MER O MER O MERCUR CUR CUR CUR CURY Y Y Y Y Translated from the Greek of Homer Published by Mrs. Shelley, “Posthumous Poems”, 1824. This al... ...—T 1.—T 1.—TO STELL O STELL O STELL O STELL O STELLA. A. A. A. A. From the Greek of Plato. Thou wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair l... ... HELENA. 2.—KISSING HELENA. 2.—KISSING HELENA. 2.—KISSING HELENA. From the Greek of Plato. Kissing Helena, together With my kiss, my soul beside it Ca... ... IRIT OF PL IRIT OF PL IRIT OF PLA A A A AT T T T TO. O. O. O. O. From the Greek. Eagle! why soarest thou above that tomb? To what sublime and star-yp... ...om it came 10 32 4: 10 32 4: 10 32 4: 10 32 4: 10 32 4: To quell the rebel Atheists; a dire guest 10 32 9: 10 32 9: 10 32 9: 10 32 9: 10 32 9: To wrea... ...n 12 29 4: 12 29 4: 12 29 4: 12 29 4: 12 29 4: In torment and in fire have Atheists gone; 12 30 4: 12 30 4: 12 30 4: 12 30 4: 12 30 4: How Atheists an...

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...ume. 231 Shelley PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE. CE. CE. CE. CE. The Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their na... ...: Dante indeed more than any other poet, and with greater success. But the Greek poets, as writers to whom no resource of awakening the sympathy of th... ...race remains among his papers. The third was the “Prometheus Unbound”. The Greek tragedians were now his most familiar companions in his wanderings, a... ...ime majesty of Aeschylus filled him with wonder and delight. The father of Greek tragedy does not possess the pathos of Sophocles, nor the variety and... ... of creation—such as we know them, instead of such as they appeared to the Greeks. Maternal Earth, the mighty parent, is superseded by the Spirit of t... ...e their English breed By vile participation of their honours With papists, atheists, tyrants, and apostates. _75 When lawyers mas...

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...the care of the family priest, one Bannister, who taught him the Latin and Greek grammars together. He was next removed to a Catholic semi- nary at Tw... ...but only seem to be such, they have a wonderful variety in them, which the Greek was a stranger to. He exceeds him in regularity and brevity, and fall... ...ling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, 380 And the world’s victor s... ...leon:’ The name taken from a foolish poet of Rhodes, who pretended much to Greek.—P . 203 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Keep clo... ... but mature the praise: Great friend of liberty! in kings a name Above all Greek, above all Roman fame: Whose word is truth, as sacred and revered, As... ...e.—P . 270 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Ye reverend atheists—— F. Scandal! name them, who? P. Why that’s the thing ...

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...e is a godless woman of the world,” would Mr. Crawley say; “she lives with atheists and Frenchmen. My mind shud- ders when I think of her awful, awful... ... Hawky. Either of these young ladies is perfectly qualified to instruct in Greek, Latin, and the rudiments of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in S... ... Bute followed the track of Sharp and his daughter back to the lodgings in Greek Street, which the defunct painter had occupied; and where por- traits... ... and quacks that weren’t fit to get their living but by grinding Latin and Greek, and a set of super- cilious dogs that pretended to look down upon Br... ... a table, and the pupil’s progress in each was marked by the professor. In Greek Georgy was pro- nounced aristos, in Latin optimus, in French tres bie... ...Achilles, as remarked by the poet Homer, occasioned a thousand woes to the Greeks— muri Achaiois alge etheke—(Hom. Il. A. 2). The selfishness of the l...

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...God, those who doubt like Huxley the Agnostic, those who deny him like the Atheists but who do at least keep his place vacant, and lastly those who ha... ...nch; the English will never think nor talk clearly until the get clerical “Greek” and sham “humanities” out of their public schools and sincere study ... ...hat the English are doing….” “Have I ever told you the story of compulsory Greek at Oxford and Cambridge?” I asked abruptly. “What has that to do with...

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... called up into the room: it was with great difficulty that I understood his Greek, and had but little of my own. He assured me upon his honour “that ... ...ity, to flatterers; Roman vir tue, to betrayers of their country; piety, to atheists; chas tity, to sodomites; truth, to informers: how many inno c...

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... pretty nigh as large as cheese plates (or for thy dear sake, heartiest of Greek Professors!), but because of all kinds of caters of fish, or flesh, o... ...of my kind come glowing on my heart, and wished to God there had been many Atheists in the better part of human nature there, to read this simple less...

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...se who are willing to suf- fer hunger and thirst in exchange for acquiring Greek and Latin. But there is a far more exact prototype of the worthy Domi... ...he had already attained that honourable title) descend the stairs from the Greek class, with his Lexicon under his 28 Guy Mannering arm, his long mis... ... fire. Under all these disadvantages, he obtained a competent knowledge of Greek and Latin, and some acquaintance with the sciences. In progress of ti... ...was not done in a cor- ner, and may serve as an answer to witch-advocates, atheists, and misbelievers of all kinds.—Ye must know that the wor- shipful... ...rtram; he has got a pupil who pays him two guineas for twelve les- sons of Greek and Latin.” “Indeed!—I am equally happy and surprised—who can be so l... ...he has only, I believe, to thank her own good sense or obstinacy, that the Greek, Latin (and Hebrew, for aught I know), were not added to 201 Sir Wal...

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... the court of Rome, and create a patri- arch for France as they did in the Greek Church!” cried Calvin, his eyes glistening at the idea thus presented... ...or nations had the right to apply such principles, fit only for a world of atheists.” “How would you save a falling monarchy?” asked Beaumarchais. “Go...

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...would neither admit that they worshipped more gods than one because of the Greeks, nor deny the divinity of Christ because of the Jews. They dreaded t... ...al uniformity. The emperor himself, albeit unbaptised and very ignorant of Greek, came and seated himself in the midst of Christian thought upon a gol... ...RNAL REALIT 3. GOD IS AN EXTERNAL REALITY Y Y Y Y IT MAY BE ARGUED that if atheists and agnostics when they set themselves to express the good will th... ...t in the unguarded self-revelations of the most se- vere and conscientious Atheists. Now, the Stoics, like many other schools of thought, drew an argu... ...re existed solitary animals that are not gregarious, pure individualists, “atheists” so to speak, and as though this ap- peal to a life beyond one’s o... ...beliefs. One may find within the An- glican communion, Arians, Unitarians, Atheists, disbeliev- ers in immortality, attenuators of miracles; there is ...

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...us hunted out of house and home for being dirty, disreputable, blaspheming atheists. ANDROCLES. I’m not an atheist, dear: I am a Chris- tian. MEGAERA.... ...med Ferrovius, of dan- gerous character and great personal strength, and a Greek tailor reputed to be a sorcerer, by name Androcles. Y ou will add the... ...then to the true God. What does his name matter? W e call him Jupiter. The Greeks call him Zeus. Call him what you will as you drop the incense on the... ...o his left, and makes Lavinia a heartbro- ken salutation) is a sorcerer. A Greek tailor, he is. A real sorcerer, too: no mistake about it. The tenth m... ... as impertinent 36 Androcles and the Lion as the gladiators. Which is the Greek sorcerer? ANDROCLES (humbly touching his forelock) Me, your Worship. ... ...his is really extremely awkward. THE MENAGERIE KEEPER. Why not that little Greek chap? He’s not a Christian: he’s a sorcerer. THE EMPEROR. The very th...

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...questioned) T olstoy would have thought and taught and quarrelled with the Greek Church all the same. Their creed has been fragmentarily practised to ... ...treat it, in effect, as criminal. Many of its advocates have been militant atheists. But for some reason the imagi- nation of white mankind has picked... ...estion as to how far the gospels are original, and how far they consist of Greek and Chinese interpolations. The record that Jesus said certain things... ...t mankind consists of a great mass of religious people and a few eccentric atheists. It consists of a huge mass of worldly people, and a small percent... ...her more than less civilized. The Latin Christian has nothing to offer the Greek Christian that Greek Christianity has not already pro- vided. They ar... ...t the story of the Holy Ghost is a later interpolation bor- rowed from the Greek and Roman imperial tradition. But experience shows that simultaneous ... ...ithout the contemptuous incredulity which spoils the temper of many modern atheists, or the senseless credulity which some- times makes pious people f... ...Allowance must also be made for the fact that the gospel is written in the Greek language, whilst the first-hand traditions and the ac- tual utterance...

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...y to day without the aid of posterity. In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sente... ... exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks. I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almi... ...truly strange, and heretical, and un popular. To Christians, no less than Greeks and Jews, it is foolishness and a stumbling block. There are, indeed... ...and swathed in linen; the death of that which never lived. But the rays of Greek poetry struggle down to us, and mingle with the sunbeams of the recen... ...een liberal, and its implied wit can endow a college. The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of eve... ... held by any. We can tolerate all philosophies, Atomists, Pneumatologists, Atheists, Theists,—Plato, Aristotle, Leucippus, Democritus, Pythagoras, Zor...

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...t. It has a right to be a Plymouth Brother though its parents be convinced atheists. It has a right to dislike its mother or father or sister or broth... ...chool made only the thinnest pre- tence of teaching anything but Latin and Greek. When I went there as a very small boy I knew a good deal of Latin gr... ...t seen a Latin inscription on a tomb that I could translate throughout. Of Greek I can decipher perhaps the greater part of the Greek alphabet. In sho... ... Cae- sar meant only being set at Virgil, with the culminating hor- ror of Greek and Homer in reserve at the end of that. I pre- ferred Caesar, becaus... ...necessary ends. It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indis- pensable gymnast... ...true, it need not trouble us. But it is a fact that ignorance of Latin and Greek and mathematics closes certain careers to men (I do not mean artifici...

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...and barbarous nations, when 55 John Locke we remember that it was a familiar and uncondemned practice amongst the Greeks and Romans to expose, with- ... ... notion of a law-maker, it is impossible to have a notion of a law, and an obliga- tion to observe it. Besides the atheists taken notice of amongst th... ...aily conversation; and so they become so many distinct complex ideas in their minds. Thus ostrhakismos amongst the Greeks, and proscriptio amongst the... ...ctions: v.g. boldness is the power to speak or do what we intend, before others, without fear or disorder; and the Greeks call the confidence of speak... ... them, must unavoidably be of great uncertainty to men of the same language and country. This is so evident in the Greek authors, that he that shall p... ... the same truth. But yet, I think, this I may say, that it is an ill way of establishing this truth, and silencing atheists, to lay the whole stress o... ...that which his scarlet would blush at, to have his au- thority of forty years, standing, wrought out of hard rock, Greek and Latin, with no small expe...

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...se who reject you, who insult you, who abuse and slander you. Hate not the atheists, the teachers of evil, the materialists—and I mean not only the go... ...der the Tatars. There is, for instance, one such poem (of course, from the Greek), The Wanderings of Our Lady through Hell, with descriptions as bold ... ...ll then. Only the people and their future spiritual power will convert our atheists, who have torn them- 126 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV – Part II selves...

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...ays talking like that,” said Cashel, plaintively. “I can’t learn Latin and Greek; and I don’t see what good they are. I work as hard as any of the res... ... harder lessons than those which had made her acquainted with the works of Greek and German philosophers long before she under- stood the English into... ...ectable and well-informed men have held that Jews, Irishmen, Chris- tians, atheists, lawyers, doctors, politicians, actors, artists, flesh-eaters, and... ...ens, and to the Bacchus or David of Michael Angelo. They fell short of the Greek stat- ues in refinement, and of the Italian in impressiveness as they... ...ok- out to make you happy. You needn’t fear my interrupting your Latin and Greek: I won’t expect you to give up your whole life to me. Why should I? T...

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...VINIA disespous’d, Or NEPTUN’S ire or JUNO’S, that so long Perplex’d the GREEK and CYTHEREA’S Son; If answerable style I can obtaine 20 Of my C... ... all thir fame Ignobly, to the trains and to the smiles 620 Of these fair Atheists, and now swim in joy, (Erelong to swim at larg) and laugh; for...

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...ne to Chaldicotes and to Gatherum Castle, consorting with gamblers, Whigs, atheists, men of loose pleasure, and Proudieites. That she had condoned; an... ...uaded her husband? But yet she did not altogether like it. She feared that Greek from Chaldicotes, even when he came with the present of a prebendal s... ...t he did not believe it. She at any rate would revolt from the gift of the Greek of Chaldicotes. ‘Oh, indeed, ’ she said, when the vicar had with some... ... child to her. ‘I don’t know, ’ said Grace, with a sheepish face. ‘I am in Greek Delectus and the irregular verbs. ’ ‘Greek Delectus and the irregular... ...id Lucy, thinking, however, in her own mind, that Horace and the irregular Greek verbs savoured too much of precocious forcing in a young lady of nine... ...ey in particular, who, stand- ing up there at her father’s elbow, learning Greek irregular verbs, had appeared to Mrs Robarts to be an especial ob- je...

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...se who reject you, who insult you, who abuse and slander you. Hate not the atheists, the teachers of evil, the materialists—and I mean not only the go... ...der the Tatars. There is, for instance, one such poem (of course, from the Greek), The Wanderings of Our Lady through Hell, with descriptions as bold ... ...ll then. Only the people and their future spiritual power will convert our atheists, who have torn them- selves away from their native soil. And w... ...o our schools.” By degrees Kolya began to get breathless again. “Latin and Greek were introduced because they are a bore and because they stupefy the ... ...ore, so what could they do to make it more sense- less? So they thought of Greek and Latin. That’s my opinion, I hope I shall never change it,” Kolya ...

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...d the Episcopalians Mil lerites and the Millerites Hindus, and the Hindus Atheists, and the Atheists Spiritualists, and the Spiritualists Agnos tics... ...iard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the man’s re... ...e up of the facts of life, not creations. It took centuries to develop the Greek drama. It borrowed from preceding ages; it lent to the ages that came... ...and will fiercely fight for them. As instances, you have all history: the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the German... ...ece! Well, now, that is just astonishing! Born there?” “No.” “Do you speak Greek?” “Yes.” “Now, ain’t that strange! I never expected to live to see th... ...being a great widower haveing lost sev eral wives. Lady Jane Grey studied Greek and Latin and was beheaded after a few days. John Bright is noted for...

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...on of his pupil. I have no remem brance of the time when I began to learn Greek; I have been told that it was when I was three years old. My earliest... ...committing to memory what my father termed vocables, being lists of common Greek words, with their signification in English, which he wrote out for me... ...sla tion; and I faintly remember going through Aesop’s Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember better, was the se... ...th year. At that time I had read, under my father’s tu ition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re member the whole of Herodotus, and of... ...udged from the fact, that I went through the whole process of preparing my Greek lessons in the same room and at the same table at which he was writin... ... he looked upon as absurd; as most of those, whom the world has considered Atheists, have always done. These particulars are important, because they ...

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...— “Once-born” and “twice-born” charac- ters— Walt Whitman— Mixed nature of Greek feel- ing—Systematic healthy-mindedness— Its reason- ableness— Libera... ...in success of every life—Pessimism of all pure naturalism— Hopelessness of Greek and Ro- 6 The V arieties of Religious Experience man view— Pathologi... ... as objective facts to be revered. A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only... ...he more afflicted she is.” B. de St. Pierre. As regards the origin of the Greek gods, we need not at present seek an opinion. But the whole array of ... ...the mere natural ani- mal man without a sense of sin; sometimes it means a Greek or Roman with his own peculiar religious con- sciousness. In neither ... ... down into our hearts, or mine at least, and I now defy all the Deists and Atheists in the world to shake my faith in Christ.” So much for Mr. Bradley... ...ist—but as being rooted in delusion altogether, just as material- ists and atheists have always said it was. At most there might remain, when the dire...

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... his Master, equally assumes a preexisting moral ity , namely , that of the Greeks and Romans; and his advice to Christians is in a great measure a s... ...a of obligation to the public ob tains in modern morality , is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of ... ...elements of human worth, as well as “Chris tian self denial.” 2 There is a Greek ideal of self de velopment, which the Platonic and Christian ideal... ...freedom. In On Liberty — Mill 87 former days, when it was proposed to burn atheists, chari- table people used to suggest putting them in a mad- hous...

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...sign. In vain do bishops stoop to pick up the dis- carded arguments of the atheists of fifty years ago by plead- ing that the words of Jesus were in a... ..., and a return made to unity of time and place, as observed in the ancient Greek drama. In the foregoing tragedy, The Doctor’s Dilemma, there are five... ... ingenuity of the playwright is much less; but I find in practice that the Greek form is inevitable when drama reaches a certain point in poetic and i...

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... erse The measure is English heroic verse without rhyme, as that of Homer in Greek and of Virgil in Latin; rhyme be- ing no necessary adjunct of true ... ...r LAVINIA disespous’d, Or NEPTUN’S ire or JUNO’S, that so long Perplex’d the GREEK and CYTHEREA’S Son; If answerable style I can obtaine Of my Celesti... ...vertue, all thir fame Ignobly, to the trains and to the smiles Of these fair Atheists, and now swim in joy, (Erelong to swim at larg) and laugh; for w...

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...again, they have Professor Butcher, and I hear he has a prodigious deal of Greek; and they have Professor Chrystal, who is a man filled with the mathe... ...in the professor’s own hand, I cannot remember to have been present in the Greek class above a dozen times. Professor Blackie was even kind enough to ... ...al of trouble to put in exercise – perhaps as much as would have taught me Greek – and sent me forth into the world and the profession of letters with... ...ast, from which my truantry protected me. I am sorry indeed that I have no Greek, but I should be sorrier still if I were dead; nor do I know the name... ...- demned anybody else. I have no doubt that he held all Ro- man Catholics, Atheists, and Mahometans as considerably out of it; I don’t believe he had ... ...ough he read little, was constant to his favourite books. He had never any Greek; Latin he happily re-taught himself after he had left school, where h...