From an engraving in Schröck's Abbildungen berühmter Gelehrten (Leipzig, 1766), i pl. 30. [Frontispiece to Vol. III. OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP VOL. III THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY IN GERMANY, AND THE NINETEENTH CENTURY IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY JOHN EDWIN SANDYS, LITT.D., FELLOW OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, AND PUBLIC ORATOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1908 OF STATE CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP VOL. III THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY IN GERMANY, BY JOHN EDWIN SANDYS, Litt.D., FELLOW OF ST JOHN'S COLLege, AND PUBLIC ORATOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1908 Denn ist breit genug, um vielen Bewerbern um den Preis neben einander Raum zu geben; darum wollen wir nicht nur neidlos, sondern auch mit dankbarer Anerkennung den Leistungen unserer auswärtigen Mitkämpfer gerecht werden. BURSIAN, Cl. Philologie in Deutschland, p. 1248, 1883. Une renaissance des études classiques s'est manifestée chez nous. Elle se distingue par l'alliance des qualités françaises de clarté et de méthode avec la solidité de l'érudition et la connaissance des travaux étrangers. S. REINACH, Manuel de Philologie Classique, i 13, 1883. This century is the first since the revival of learning in which a serious challenge has been thrown down to the defenders of the humanistic tradition. But I think it will be found that the position of humanism in this country at the close of the century is much stronger than it was at the beginning. JEBB, Humanism in Education, p. 30, Oxford, 1899. European scholars...find that they have to count with a new factor and have to recognize in our philological work a national stamp. GILDERSLEEVE, Oscillations and Nutations of Philo logical Studies, p. 11, Philadelphia, 1900. |