Essay on Language: As Connected with the Faculties of the Mind, and as Applied to Things in Nature and Art ...C. Wiley, 1825 - 203 sidor |
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... necessary in all controversies and disputations , to imitate the wis- dom of the mathematicians , in setting down in the very beginning , the definitions of our words and terms , that others may know how we accept and understand them ...
... necessary in all controversies and disputations , to imitate the wis- dom of the mathematicians , in setting down in the very beginning , the definitions of our words and terms , that others may know how we accept and understand them ...
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... necessary for this specific purpose . The fidelity of a dog for his master , is the instinct or attribute of his nature ; and this obsequious trustiness is as readily subser- vient to the highwayman or pirate , as to the person of most ...
... necessary for this specific purpose . The fidelity of a dog for his master , is the instinct or attribute of his nature ; and this obsequious trustiness is as readily subser- vient to the highwayman or pirate , as to the person of most ...
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... necessary means of his progress . The ideas , therefore , as well as the vocabulary of the savage , are necessarily limi- ted ; but his words being comparatively few , are often repeated , and become familiar by use . They are also ...
... necessary means of his progress . The ideas , therefore , as well as the vocabulary of the savage , are necessarily limi- ted ; but his words being comparatively few , are often repeated , and become familiar by use . They are also ...
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... necessary consequence , divided into small tribes , and can make but a slow progress in civili zation . The consistency and elevation of public sentiment , for any length of time , depend on ed ucation in some form or other ; but ...
... necessary consequence , divided into small tribes , and can make but a slow progress in civili zation . The consistency and elevation of public sentiment , for any length of time , depend on ed ucation in some form or other ; but ...
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... necessary materials on which they could be employed 28. A new era now dawned on the world , and instead of mere oral traditions , greatly perverted in the transmission , the chief events were recorded on tables of marble , lead , or ...
... necessary materials on which they could be employed 28. A new era now dawned on the world , and instead of mere oral traditions , greatly perverted in the transmission , the chief events were recorded on tables of marble , lead , or ...
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Sida 14 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Sida 73 - Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh...
Sida 142 - And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name?
Sida 5 - ... although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well loquendum ut vulgus sentiendum ut sapientes; yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgement.
Sida 71 - And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. And they judged the people at all seasons : the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Sida 142 - And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM. And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Sida 171 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Sida 28 - For their studies : first, they should begin with the chief and necessary rules of some good grammar, either that now used or any better ; and while this is doing, their speech is to be fashioned to a distinct and clear pronunciation, as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels.
Sida 129 - Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
Sida 166 - Now gliding remote on the verge of the sky, The moon half extinguished her crescent displays : But lately I marked, when majestic on high She shone, and the planets were lost in her blaze.