Chap. XIII.] Classic Literature. 2*29 



a LcdicoHj for cnaljling those wiio understand no 

 otlier language than English to acquire the know- 

 ledge of Greek, was for the first time presented to 

 the pubhc by tlie celebrated Mr. Parkhurst, of 

 Great Britain, whose learned and useful labours 

 for promoting the stud}' of the ancient languages, 

 and especially of those in which tlie sacred volume 

 was onginally Avritten, 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 

 Schultens, Hemsterhuis, Ruhnkenius, Valckenaer, 

 I.ennep, and Scheid, will long be remembered 

 with respect by the friends of learning. The first 

 named of these great scholars, the immortal Al- 

 bert Schultens, early in the century investigated, 

 with singular erudition and acuteness, the deriva- 

 tion and structure of several languages, and parti- 

 cularly the Greek. He was 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 iUustratcd by liis 

 disciples, Ludovic Caspar Valckenaer f, and John 

 Daniel Lennep {, who offered to the world many 

 refined and curious speculations on the subject. 



* Hemsterhuis did not himself, it is believed, publish hi-; doc- 

 trine respecting the derivation of the Greek inngunL;(\ This wai 

 done by his disciples. 



f Vide Ludovici Caspar! Valckenaerii Ohcrx at 'tones, qiiibus via 

 tnumtur ad Origincs Gnrcas luvcatigandns, ct Lcxicorum defect us 

 rc&arscicndos. 



X Vide Joann. Daniel. Lennep Dc Anahgia J.iug'ur Cintcx, six' 

 Hationum Analogicarum Lini^mc Grctccs Expositiv. 



