Edward Gibbon Quotes About Language
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Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious diet, are the most effectual preservatives against the impure desires of the flesh.
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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
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The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
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The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit or of power. He was raised to the throne by the acclamations of his equals; and the title of Khan expresses, in the language of the North of Asia, the full extent of the regal dignity. The right of hereditary succession was long confined to the blood of the founder of the monarchy; and at this moment all the Khans, who reign from Crimea to the wall of China, are the lineal descendants of the renowned Zingis.
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In this primitive and abject state [of hunters and gatherers], which ill deserves the name of society, the human brute, without arts or laws, almost without sense or language, is poorly distinguished from the rest of the animal creation.
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The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.
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Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.
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Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.
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Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.
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