Sir G. C. Lewis

Cited as Sir G. C. Lewis. — 14 quotations

Accredit

The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century.

accretion

To strip off all the subordinate parts of his narrative as a later accretion.

Affinity

There is a close affinity between imposture and credulity.

Anterior

Antigonus, who was anterior to Polybius.

Apocryphal

The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works.

Commemorative

An inscription commemorative of his victory.

Crepuscular

This semihistorical and crepuscular period.

Criterion

Inferences founded on such enduring criteria.

Depravation

The depravation of his moral character destroyed his judgment.

Discourager

The promoter of truth and the discourager of error.

Divergence

Related with some divergence by other writers.

Envenom

On the question of slavery opinion has of late years been peculiarly envenomed.

Literature

The origin of all positive science and philosophy, as well as of all literature and art, in the forms in which they exist in civilized Europe, must be traced to the Greeks.

Spoliation

Legal spoliation, which will impoverish one part of the community in order to corrupt the remainder.