In the text this Article was, by inadvertence, numbered XIX, and all the succeeding Articles of this Number are marked two higher than they ought to be. — from American Journal of Science, Vol. 1. by Various
Learning, causes of the decline of, iii. 270 ; neglect of pagan literature by the early Christians, 273 ; blighting influence of superstition and asceticism, 274 ; corruption of the Latin tongue, 275 ; rules observed in its pronunciation, 276-278 ; errors of the populace, 278 ; changes wrought by the Italians and French, 279 , 280 ; neglect of quantity, 281 ; specimens of verses by St. Augustin and others, 282-284 notes ; change of Latin into Romance, 283 ; Italian corruptions of the Latin, 285 ; effect of the disuse of Latin, 286 ; ignorance of various sovereigns, ib. notes ; extent of Charlemagne's and Alfred's learning, 286 and note f ; ignorance of the clergy, 287 , 288 , and notes ; scarcity of books, 289 and note p ; erasure of manuscripts, 289 ; lack of eminent learned men, ib. ; John Scotus and Silvester II., 290 and note r ; preservative effects of religion on the Latin tongue, 291-293 ; non-existence of libraries, 292 note ; prevalence of superstitions, 293-295 ; revival of literature, 413 ; study of civil law, 414-419 ; establishment of public schools, 419 ; Abelard and the university of Paris, 420 , 421 ; Oxford university and its founders, 422 , 423 , and notes ; rapid increase of universities, 423-425 ; causes of their celebrity, 425 ; spread of the scholastic philosophy, 426 ; its eminent disputants, 427 ; influence of Aristotle and of the church, 429 , 430 ; unprofitableness of the scholastic discussions, 430 , 431 ; labours of Roger Bacon and Albertus Magnus, 432 and note s , 433 ; cultivation of the new languages, 433 ; the troubadours and their productions, 434-436 ; origin of the French language, 436 ; early French compositions, 437 , 438 ; Norman tales and romances, 439 ; the Roman de la Rose, 440 ; French prose writings, 441 , 442 and notes ; formation of the Spanish language: the Cid, 442 , 443 , and notes ; rapid growth of the Italian language, 443 , 444 ; excuses of Italians for writing in French, 445 note z ; Dante and his Divine Comedy, 445-449 ; Petrarch and his writings, 449-452 ; dawn of the English tongue, 452 ; Layamon's Brut, 453 and note k ; Robert of Gloucester and other metrical writers, 453 ; merit of Piers Plowman's Vision, 454 ; cause of the slow progress of the English language, ib. ; earliest compositions in English, 455 ; pre-eminence of Chaucer, 456 ; revival of classical learning, 457 ; eminent cultivators thereof, 458 ; invention of paper, 459 ; transcribers and booksellers, ib. note x ; rarity and dearness of books, 460 ; recovery of classical manuscripts, 461 ; eminent labourers in this field, 462 , 463 ; revival of the study of Greek, 465 , 466 ; state of learning in Greece, 466 ; services rendered by the mediæval Greeks, 467-469 and notes ; opposition to the study of Greek at Oxford, 470 ; fame due to Eton and Winchester schools, ib. — from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
In the words of Balaam, in Num. xxiv. 17 (which refer to the passage under consideration), "There cometh a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre riseth out of Israel, and smiteth the territories of Moab, and destroyeth all the sons of the tumult," there is viewed, in the sceptre, only the victorious and destructive power which he shall display in his relation to the world ; but the subjects of dominion are, in that passage, according to ver. — from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
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