John Sandys (classicist)

John Edwin Sandys (19 May 1844 – 6 July 1922) was an English classical scholar, elected in 1909 a Fellow of the British Academy and knighted in 1911. Quotes Steaming onwards to the south-east between Methana and Ægina, we passed close under the island of Poros, with its hilly slopes clothed with groves of citron, an island which once bore the name of Calaureia, and was the scene of the death of Demosthenes. It was here that he sought sanctuary from the emissaries of Antipater in the temple of Poseidon. An Easter Vacation in Greece 1887 43 Macmillan https://books.google.com/books?id=8l5MjmANV2oC&pg=PA43 'Philology' was for a long time limited to linguistic studies, and was regarded as only including grammar, lexicography, exegesis, and textual and literary criticism; but, since the time of Wolf, it has been generally understood in a wider sence, as including the study of ancient life in all its phases, as handed down to us in the literature, the inscriptions, and the monuments, of Greece and Rome ... A History of Classical Scholarship from the Sixth Century B.C. to the End of the Middle Ages 12 https://books.google.com/books?id=godfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA12 1903 Cambridge at the University Press In Petrarch we readily recognise a link between the mediaeval and the modern world. He was fully conscious of belonging in a peculiar sense to a transitional time. He describes himself as placed on the confines of two peoples, and as looking backwards as well as forwards ... Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning 1905 Cambridge at the Universe Press 9 https://archive.org/details/harvardlectures00sandgoog/page/n30/mode/2up Experimental Science is represented by Bacon, in the sixth part of the Opus Maius, as a general method for the purpose of checking the results reached by mathematical processes, and also of prompting further researches in fresh fields of inquiry. He saw its bearing and its importance as a universal method of research. Roger Bacon Proceedings of the British Academy, 1913–1914 6 371–388 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015041830269&view=1up&seq=449&q1=Sandys (quote on p. 387) External links Category:Classical scholars Category:Educators from England Category:Translators from England Category:1844 births Category:1922 deaths Category:Fellows of the British Academy