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Example sentences for "classical studies"

  • Its discussions of special subjects--such as female education, classical studies, the management of colleges and universities, etc.

  • His early life was marked by a particular interest in classical studies.

  • One of his earliest cares was to elevate the character of classical studies in our country.

  • As the champion of classical studies, and a student of language, or philologist, he is entitled to be specially remembered.

  • From the time of this immigration, too, classical studies took an altogether new direction.

  • He did much for the advancement of classical studies, and in various ways promoted the Protestant Reformation.

  • During two years I was thus teacher and student, advancing considerably in classical studies.

  • The history of Greek literature would be imperfect without some allusion to a class of writings not usually included in the range of classical studies.

  • The first was the thirteenth century, which followed an age devoted to classical studies, and its theological writers and poets coined freely in the Roman mint.

  • The shame caused by the zeal with which the Khalifs of the Abassidean line at the end of the 8th century applied themselves to the classical Greek literature seems to have given the first impulse to the =Revival of Classical Studies=.

  • In any case Boëthius did great service in preserving the continuity of Western culture by his hearty encouragement and careful prosecution of classical studies at a time when these were threatened with utter neglect.

  • The church’s distrust of Plato, on the other hand, drove many of the more enthusiastic friends of classical studies into a sort of Hellenic paganism.

  • Classical studies in relation to, see subheading Secular Classification of topics based on, ii.

  • On Damiani's views of classical studies, see Opusc.

  • Publication Committee for the Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: Prof.

  • The Director and Members of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

  • The lower limit of the Roman age of classical studies may be conveniently placed in the year 529.

  • Italian cities, and those in political power did much to make their cities notable centers for classical studies.

  • The Lycées continued largely as classical institutions, though after 1865 the crowding of the rising sciences began to dispute the supremacy of classical studies.

  • Classical studies he would confine to the last years of the course.

  • For in every way that century surpassed its predecessors; and in classical studies it excelled the thirteenth, which devoted to them a smaller portion of its intellectual energies.

  • In Italy, one does not find that the passage from the twelfth to the thirteenth century displays the decline in classical studies which is apparent north of the Alps.

  • Thus law tended to foster, rather than repress, grammar and rhetoric; and had no unfavourable effect on classical studies.

  • The excavations begun in 1896 by the American school of Classical Studies at Athens, under the direction of Rufus B.

  • The bones of St Vitus, the patron saint of Saxony, were removed thither according to legend in 836, but apart from this attraction, Corvey became the centre of Christianity in Saxony and a nursery of classical studies.

  • The lore of reading a hindrance to classical studies.

  • The various mental activities hinted at in the preceding chapters had naturally a retarding effect upon my classical studies, which I had never greatly taken to.

  • The love of reading a hindrance to classical studies.

  • The excitements of modern literature lend additional ardor to classical studies.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot endure; classical authors; classical culture; classical education; classical learning; classical mythology; classical studies; classical times; classical writers; deep gorge; got into; horizontal branch; last obliged; mortem appearances; occasion required; only friend; our camp; past participle; really very; recovered himself; religious education; social equality; soft brush; true philosophy; young priest; young sirs