The Quarterly Review (Volume 95) (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I iri!jTW a'iyiif.u|iJ;'. ii- 'nil a bicaoi ailsn tom elms feulrf /WWjCWf Bd.tfflfl MWTqp/Wwf Mythology. ; .Edited, Ly VV. Smith, LL.D. 3 vols. bvo. Lon-, don. 1844?ISoL,, ,,, ,, ,,.,,. , , , .,;,, ., ,,,n 2. i Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. By.tfip same 2nd edit. 1 vol. 8vo. London. 1851. [uhsJiouoii ".. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Gcograpliy. By the same. Vol. I. 8vo. London. 1854. , , ." ... '., ;, 4. A Smaller Dictionary of Antiyyities, Delected and Abridged. from the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Aitfiquitiqs. ,Jifl4 edit. By the same. London. f. A new Classical Dictionary of Ancient Biography, Afytholoqyf and Geor/raftiy. By the same. 2nd edit. 1 vol. 8vp. London. C. A smaller Classica] Dictionary of Greek and Roman Bio r/raphy, Mythology and Geography ;, abridged from the larger work. By the same. 2nd edit. 1 vol. post 8vo. London, 185,4: 7. Real-Encyclopiidic der Classischen Altertkuinsiciandsenscliaft i herausc/egelen bm "August Pauly. 7 vols. 8vo. ytuttgard,t,i ( tt'Til ltff,M 'Jllj Ot 'JIIIKUIllie; '1C "[(!' /I.Ill fll'it '" -[/.! 'lll T is arr old thettH.- nctioned by Plato, arid 'since very1 gene!-; iiufafiy received,' that' the 'art 'of writing and" 'the" spread"'df literature are rnjuriotfs! ttt the faculty'bf Memory: ' Men ;if Is! saidj when provided'iwil'h 'artificial means of 'recording evetita, are no1 ionge1 atahis'to cultivate the talent witlh Which nature' ehdowed -tilem for that purpose,1 and which consequently becomes'! impaired. -Even- in the face of such high authority'we venture toi'iaaititaih 'that this .theory is"a:fallacy; and that literary btfl-" tttre, '(far Trom impairing, has been the means of strengthenihgi and expending the' powers of' the memory; much dn'the iratib in1 rtMch...