Lanterna Rally

Author: John Stuart Blackie

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-21

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780484285629

Excerpt from Classical Literature in Its Relation to the Nineteenth Century and Scottish University Education Citizens or edinburgh, students OF the university, IT is not without a certain unwonted buoyancy of feeling and a peculiar elasticity of hope, that I commence with the present Address my labours as a teacher of Greek literature amongst you. Hellenic learning has long stood very low in Scotland so low, indeed, that, were the prospects of classical teaching in this country no better now than they have been for the last two hundred years, I should have been tempted, per haps, to consider myself justified in performing the business of the Greek class in this University as a sort of Official by-work, necessary to be gone through in a routine way, for the sake of a decent show to the world, but by no means as the serious business of my life, from which I might expect any joyful result for the brighter blossoming and more mellow fruitage of the fair tree of human culture. As the larch, according to the observations of naturalists, grows on a sandstone sub soil only with a hollow hearted show of vitality for a few years, and then droops so Greek learning in Scotland, with one or two brilliant but abnormal exceptions, has existed only in the shape of a number of ill-conditioned seeds, that have. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.