 He was great,' repeats a modern writer, ' in every thing he undertook ; as a captain, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, an historian, a grammarian, a mathematician, and an architect.  New Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology and Geography - Էջ 136sir William Smith - 1850Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1851 - 188 էջ
...unsurpassed. Not even the sleepless Brougham has rivalled him. He was not only a great general, but a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, an historian, a scholar, a mathematician, and an architect. In view of the wonderful diversity of his powers, he has... | |
 | Charles Merivale - 1852 - 566 էջ
...industry and exactness.1 He was great, repeats a modern writer, in every thing he undertook; as a captain, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, an historian, a grammarian, a mathematician and an architect.2 The secret of this manifold excellence was discovered... | |
 | Julius Caesar - 1853 - 248 էջ
...Caesar must be pronounced to have been a universal genius : he was great not only as a general, but as a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, an historian, a scholar, a mathematician, and an architect. The existing productions of Caesar are his memoirs of the... | |
 | 1860 - 860 էջ
...and exactness.' 'He was great,' repeats a modern writer, 'in everything he undertook, as a captain, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, an historian, a grammarian, a mathematician, and an architect.' And as if to complete the picture of the most perfect... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 606 էջ
...exactness." ' He was great,' repeats a modern writer, ' in every thing he undertook, as a captain, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, an historian, a grammarian, a mathematician, and au architect.' And as if to complete the picture of the most perfect... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1861 - 634 էջ
...the most varied talents, and was distinguished by an extraordinary genins, and by attaiuments in very diversified pursuits. He was, at one and the same...philologer, a mathematician, and an architect. He seemed eqnally fitted to excel in all, and has given proofs that he wonld have surpassed most men in... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1864 - 1096 էջ
...thus Bummed up by a modern historian : — " He was great in everything he undertook ; as a captain, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, an historian, a grammarian, a mathematician, and an architect"! And the historian of the Ca3sars has pointed out that... | |
 | William King Tweedie - 1864 - 482 էջ
...the nations might have possessed a different aspect; but to his other gifts, the man who was at once a general, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, a historian, a mathematician, and an architect, and great in nearly all of them, added a promptitude... | |
 | William Smith - 1865 - 428 էջ
...and was considered to be effeminate in his dress. Caesar was probably the greatest man of antiquity. He was at one and the same time a general, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, a historian, a philologer, a mathematician, and an architect. He was equally fitted to excel in every... | |
 | John Charles CURTIS - 1869 - 230 էջ
...foremost name in Roman history. " He was great," says Drumann, " in everything he undertook, as a captain, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, an historian, a grammarian, a mathematician, and an architect." When he rose to the helm of power, he proved himself... | |
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