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Through the Language Glass, Why the World Looks Different in Other LanguagesEven in a period far less unaccustomed than ours to the concurrence of political power and greatness of mind, GladstoneБЂ™s Homeric scholarship was viewed as something out of the ordinary. He was, after all, an active politician, and yet his three-volume opus would have been no mean achievement as the lifetimeБЂ™s work of a dedicated don. To some, especially political colleagues, GladstoneБЂ™s devotion to the classics was the cause of resentment. БЂњYou are so absorbed in questions about Homer and Greek words,БЂ«a party friend complained, БЂњthat you are not reading newspapers or feeling the pulse of followers.БЂ«But for the general public, GladstoneБЂ™s virtuoso Homerology was a subject of fascination and admiration. The Times ran a review of GladstoneБЂ™s book that was so long it had to be printed in two installments and would amount to more than thirty pages in this bookБЂ™s type. Nor did GladstoneБЂ™s erudition fail to impress in intellectual circles. БЂњThere are few public men in Europe,БЂ«was one professorБЂ™s verdict, БЂњso pure-minded, so quick-sighted, and so highly cultivated as Mr. Gladstone.БЂ«In the following years, books by distinguished academics in Britain and even on the Continent were dedicated to Gladstone, БЂњthe statesman, orator, and scholar,БЂ«БЂњthe untiring promoter of Homeric Studies.БЂ«William Ewart Gladstone, 1809-1898 Of course, there was a but ...» |
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