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342 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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0 Greece And The Howitt G-Reetis . . B 2...
tinct about , tlie or lost old in Greeks other being races dead and , about about the the oldest present races being of peop of le being a totall exy
different kind , yet it is , clearly _ajDparent to every one who has resided acquainted for with any length the ancient of time Greeks amongst from the history modern , that Greeks they are , and one who and Is
temperament the same peop and le , life have , even the as same they virtues have , essentiall the same y the failing same s , the language sanie . Albanian The modern and Greek Turkish has appropriated languagesbut to himself the basis many of words the language from the Italian is the ,
old Hellenic , tongue , and every forei , gner who devotes himself to it finds little difficulty in understanding the popular language which is now current in Greecealthough occasionally a word may occur with which he is
unacquainted , . This language is becoming daily more and more purified from learned these , b , y indus the t elevation rious , excellent —ever since Coray , the the time regenerator of Coray of , ( of Greece whom , in , ' the the
land peaceful , ' there _jDath is of an schools interesting , of the sketch classic language in vol i . and p . 166 literature , )—of of the his classical native tongue , and the study of the classics in the schools . As in language , so
the In _eveiything Greek race else may , whatever have experienced interming , ling yet of the forei Hellenic gn popular character elements has the evidentl Greeks y moulded let them , Impressed live under , whatever and appropri rule ated th them mhave to itself a community , so that
, ey ay , In nationality language constitutes , religion , _national the distinguishing virtues and mark failings of the , na Gr y , e In eks fact from , this all strong other nations . The Turkish dominion first brought Greece into a full
consciousthey ness of were this Hellenes . The , Greeks fashioned , throug for h something the Turks better , came than rightl the y to life feel of that the Tartar race , a life of ignorance and lawlessness under the sway of despotism .
Amongst these national virtues I have already mentioned the love of religion , of their native land , and of liberty , which also led to and accommore plished humble the War virtues of Independence which in the . X hi < et hest me degree now mention belong two to the less Greek known s ,
and in which they mi , ght serve as examp g les , not merely to Asiatics , but , also to Europeans—domestic virtue and industry . Industry—I have heard much of Greek said s , ; especiall and assuredl y by German a great s , about deal may the be slovenliness said on this and subject Incorrig parti ibility
cularly in all that regards y government , order , organization , and the , like . But I have seen , and see daily and hourly , in the towns and in the country , amongst both men and women of the labouring classes , a picture of industry
which strikes me with admiration ; because this industry is not the result of necessity or compulsion , it arises from a natural impulse for activity . The Greeks are cheerful over their labour . They talk merrilwhilst
y Extremel they are y engaged temperat in e it , in and eating when their and drinking day's work , they is done know , then no they necessities dance . of luxury , and not unfrequently they bury the money which they have
saved by their labour , and which they do not know any mode of employing better . How Athens increases daily under the unwearied labour of on the the Greek coasts quarryman of Asia , with Minor all his on hewing the hei and hts his of b Constantinop uilding ! In le Palestine in the ,
G _^ urco-Greek provinces and , islands ; every g where are the Greeks , to be building met with houses , planting , and olives taking and possession mulberry of -trees the , e sp arth inning by degrees silk and . cotton But it ,
ancient is especiall times y in , princi maritime pally life distinguishes and in trade herself that , Greece and the now advances , as in which the most free Greece has made in this direction are of that kind which well deserve the
dentl attention y prove of the what rest enlarged of Europe , free , and Greece especial might ly become of England to European ; because commerce they evi- . " ike importation of articles of trade into Greece , which under the Turkish
rule was incalculably small , amounted , twenty-five years after the emancipa-
342 Notices Of Books.
342 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/54/
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