...the traveller had read in school would seal the bond between ancient and modern empires. Since '[a]ll our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above the savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean', said Samuel Johnson in 1776, '[a]...

...always conscious of an inferiority from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see ... all our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts,...has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean. — JAMES BOSWELL The Life of Samuel Johnson CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi INTRODUCTION xiii 1. Galileo...

...were the four great Empires of the world; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts,...us above savages, has come to us from the shores of Mediterranean.1 Johnson's recognition of Italy as the main artery of culture, through which the influences...

...were the four great Empires of the world; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts,...above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.'4 Significantly, the English writer puts the glory of these empires in the past tense,...

...Dr. Johnson (i709—i784) evoked the contemporary importance of Italy with his observation that "all our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come from the shores of the Mediterranean," and this conviction was shared by an increasing number of tourists...

...expected a man should see. The grand object of traveling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above the savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.' Boswell, Life of Johnson1 When Forster...