 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - Education - 1888 - 1260 pages
...culture proceeded that, as Gibbon tells us, " in all the cities of the Roman world the education of youth was entrusted to masters of grammar and rhetoric,...who were elected by the magistrates, maintained at public expense, and distinguished by many lucrative and honourable privileges." 1889.] University Life... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1890 - 590 pages
...they ought to content themselves with expounding Luke and Matthew in the churches of the Galileans. In all the cities of the Roman world, the education...honourable privileges. The edict of Julian appears to have inc'uded the physicians, and us with our own weapons, and with our own arts a».d science* they overcome... | |
 | Patrick Francis Moran - Church history - 1890 - 318 pages
...aspire to the rank of teachers. Throughout the empire the public education was entrusted to teachers maintained at the public expense, and distinguished by many lucrative and honourable privileges. Henceforward none should be chosen save those whose worship of the gods would receive his approval.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1899 - 632 pages
...still extant anong the epistle* at Julian, (zlii.,) may be oomnared with the loow inventive* of Gregory the cities of the Roman world, the education of the youth was intrusted to masters of grammar and rhetoric; who wen elected by the magistrates, maintained at the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1900 - 642 pages
...churches of the Galileans." In all the cities of the Roman world, the education of the youth was intrusted to masters of grammar and rhetoric; who were elected...public expense, and distinguished by many lucrative 14 These laws, which affected the clergy, may be found in the slight bints of Julian himself (Epist.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 602 pages
...they ought to content themselves with expounding Luke and Matthew in the churches of the Galilaeans.91 In all the cities of the Roman world, the education...to himself the approbation of the candidates, was authorized by the laws to corrupt, or to punish, the religious constancy of the most learned of the... | |
 | William Cadwaladr Davies, William Lewis Jones - 1905 - 262 pages
...schools in Britain, while in all the cities of the Roman world, according to Gibbon, the education of youth was entrusted to masters of grammar and rhetoric,...distinguished by many lucrative and honourable privileges. It is generally supposed that the Roman cimtates in Britain were at least thirtythree in number, representing... | |
 | English periodicals - 1902 - 662 pages
...further than to quote the words of Gibbon : " In all the cities of the Roman world the education of youth was entrusted to masters of grammar and rhetoric,...distinguished by many lucrative and honourable privileges." Without further inquiry on what would be an interesting question — viz. to what degree the organisation... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Church history - 1916 - 1006 pages
...ought to content themselves with expounding Luke and Matthew in the churches of the Galileans. 1JO In all the cities of the Roman world, the education of the youth was intrusted to the masters of grammar and rhetoric ; who were elected by the magistrates, maintained... | |
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... that the men who exalt the merit of implicit faith are unfit to claim or to enjoy the advantages of science; and he vainly contends, that if they refuse to adore the gods of Homer and Demosthenes, they ought to content themselves with expounding Luke... 
