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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... observed respecting an opinion which has been sustained with unne- cessary zeal . If at the creation any portion of lan- guage was directly communicated to man by his Maker , it must have been such a language as was suited to his then ...
... observed respecting an opinion which has been sustained with unne- cessary zeal . If at the creation any portion of lan- guage was directly communicated to man by his Maker , it must have been such a language as was suited to his then ...
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... observation of Ascham , " Even as a hawke fleeth not hie with one wing , even so a man reacheth not to excellency with one tongue . " This remark applies particu- larly to those philosophic principles of language , the proper ...
... observation of Ascham , " Even as a hawke fleeth not hie with one wing , even so a man reacheth not to excellency with one tongue . " This remark applies particu- larly to those philosophic principles of language , the proper ...
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... observe , that this subject is one on which learned men are far from being universally agreed . It is maintained by some that the letters introduced into Syria by Cadmus , and thence into Greece , had been in use , in India , for a long ...
... observe , that this subject is one on which learned men are far from being universally agreed . It is maintained by some that the letters introduced into Syria by Cadmus , and thence into Greece , had been in use , in India , for a long ...
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... observed by all nations to speak exceeding close and inward ; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth is as ill as hearing law French . " 53. It is only by an attention to the elementary structure of our own language , on ...
... observed by all nations to speak exceeding close and inward ; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth is as ill as hearing law French . " 53. It is only by an attention to the elementary structure of our own language , on ...
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... observations of philosophy . Instead of considering the study of language as the mere task of the schools , there is reason to believe that a better understanding of its elements will lead to great improvements in mental and physical re ...
... observations of philosophy . Instead of considering the study of language as the mere task of the schools , there is reason to believe that a better understanding of its elements will lead to great improvements in mental and physical re ...
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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.