Of National Characters (1748) [ Concepts ]
… incapable of all knowledge and civility. But our island has produced as great men, either for action or learning, as Greece or Italy has to boast of. It is pretended, that the sentiments of men become more delicate as the country … complains of the profanation of learning, by its becoming too common. Formerly, says Juvenal, science was confined to Greece and Italy. Now the whole world emulates Athens and Rome. Eloquent Gaul has taught Britain, knowing in the laws. … than the latter; though the colonies of both the tribes were interspersed and intermingled throughout all the extent of Greece, the Lesser Asia, Sicily, Italy, and the islands of the Ægean sea. The Athenians were the only Ionians that ever …
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