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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... simple , beauti- ful , and extensive in their application , to a degree which must excite the admiration of every enlight- ened investigator . How could it be supposed that a nation of plain men could agree in the adoption and use of a ...
... simple , beauti- ful , and extensive in their application , to a degree which must excite the admiration of every enlight- ened investigator . How could it be supposed that a nation of plain men could agree in the adoption and use of a ...
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... Novelty , however , is not sought for the sake of innovation . The leading object is simple philosophic truth . 3. Many obvious difficulties are presented in connexion with such 1 зашть влечиште Introductory dissertation,
... Novelty , however , is not sought for the sake of innovation . The leading object is simple philosophic truth . 3. Many obvious difficulties are presented in connexion with such 1 зашть влечиште Introductory dissertation,
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... simple . The system of Egyptian hieroglyphics must have been one with which it required a large portion of human life to become familiar ; because their original elements must have been very numerous , and liable to great variations ...
... simple . The system of Egyptian hieroglyphics must have been one with which it required a large portion of human life to become familiar ; because their original elements must have been very numerous , and liable to great variations ...
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... simple sublime , in the plans of Divine wisdom . All that music ever did , or ever can perform , de- pends on the variations wrought on seven notes . Nine figures , with a cipher , in their combinations , give all possible powers of ...
... simple sublime , in the plans of Divine wisdom . All that music ever did , or ever can perform , de- pends on the variations wrought on seven notes . Nine figures , with a cipher , in their combinations , give all possible powers of ...
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... simple fact that one individual can add a fifth part to the entire body of the language , may give some idea how far it is fixed , so as to need no change . 55. It is not within the plan of the present work to attend to pronunciation ...
... simple fact that one individual can add a fifth part to the entire body of the language , may give some idea how far it is fixed , so as to need no change . 55. It is not within the plan of the present work to attend to pronunciation ...
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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.