Classic Literature. 45 



ledge of Greek, was for the first time presented 

 to the public by the celebrated Mr. Parkhurst, 

 of Great-Britain, whose learned and useful labours 

 for promoting the study of the ancient languages, 

 and especially of those in which the sacred volume 

 was originally written, are well known. 



In Greek literature the learned men of Holland, 

 for a considerable part of the century, bore the palm 

 from the contending world. Among these, Shul- 

 tens, Hemsterhuis, Ruhnkenius, Valckenaer, 

 Lennep, and Scheid, will long be remembered 

 with respect by the friends of learning. The first 

 named of these great scholars, the immortal Al- 

 bert Shultens, early in the century, investigated, 

 with singular erudition and aciueness, the deriva- 

 tion and structure of several languages, and particu- 

 larly the Greek. He w T as followed by his coun- 

 tryman, the celebrated Tiberius Hemsterhuis/ 

 who undertook to derive the whole Greek lan- 

 guage, various and copious as it is, from a few 

 short primitives, on a plan entirely new. His doc- 

 trines were further pursued and illustrated by his 

 disciples, Ludovic Caspar Valckenaer/ and 

 John Daniel Lennep/ who offered to the world 

 many refined and curious speculations on the sub- 

 ject. To these succeeded Everard Scheid/ a 

 disciple of the same school, who wrote largely and 

 learnedly on the proposed system of derivation, 

 but differed materially from his preceptor and his 

 fellow pupils. Besides the services rendered to 

 Greek literature by the great critics above men- 



h Hemsterhuis did not himself, it is believed, publish his doctrine 

 respecting the derivation of the Greek language. This was done by his 

 disciples. 



i Vide Ludovici CASPARI Valckenaerii Observaiioncs, quibus via 

 munitur ad Origines Grtzcas Invcstigandas, et Lex'uorum defectus resarsciendos. 



j Vide Joann. Daniel. Lennep De Analogia Lingua Graca, she Rw 

 fionum Analogicarum Lingua Graces Expositio. 



i Vide Et'jsr.oljgjcujn; and Animadversiones ad Analogiam Lingua Graca, 



