RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}, etc.,
of which we used to hear so much when coached in the _Ethics_.

Mr. G. went on to argue that because the Greeks drew these fine
distinctions in words, they were superior in conduct. "You cannot beat the
Greeks in noble qualities."

_Mr. G._--I admit there is no Greek word of good credit for the virtue of
humility.

_J. M._--{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}? But that has an association of meanness.

_Mr. G._--Yes; a shabby sort of humility. Humility as a sovereign grace is
the creation of Christianity.

_Friday, December 18._--Brilliant sunshine, but bitterly cold; an east wind
blowing straight from the Maritime Alps. Walking, reading, talking. Mr. G.
after breakfast took me into his room, where he is reading Heine, Butcher
on Greek genius, and Marbot. Thought Thiers's well-known remark on Heine's
death capital,--"To-day the wittiest Frenchman alive has died."

_Mr. G._--We have talked about the best line in poetry, etc. How do you
answer this question--Which century of English history produced the
greatest men?

_J. M._--What do you say to the sixteenth?

_Mr. G._--Yes, I think so. Gardiner was a great man. Henry VIII. was great.
But bad. Poor Cranmer. Like Northcote, he'd no backbone. Do you remember
Jeremy Collier's sentence about his bravery at the stake, which (M164) I
count one of the grandest in English prose--"He seemed to repel the force
of the fire and to overlook the torture, by strength of thought."(289)
Thucydides could not beat that.

The old man twice declaimed the sentence with deep sonorous voice, and his
usual incomparable modulation.

Mr. G. talked of a certain