... and consider the organs of speech as the instruments of understanding : we should be very careful not to use them as the weapons of vice, or tools of folly, and do our utmost to unlearn any trivial or ridiculous habits, which tend to lessen the value... Select British Classics - Strona 1831803Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Mr. Town - 1767 - Liczba stron: 296
...and beafts (though without the power of articulation) perfectly underftand one another by the founds they utter ; and that dogs, cats, &c. have each a particular language to themfelves, like different nations. Thus it may be fuppofed, that the nightingales of Italy have as... | |
| Bonnell Thornton, George Colman - 1767 - Liczba stron: 310
...and beads (though without the power of articulation) perfectly underftand one another by the founds they utter ; and that dogs, cats, &c. have each a particular language to themfelves, like different nations. Thus it may be fuppofed, that the nightingales of Italy have as... | |
| 1792 - Liczba stron: 494
...and bcafts (though without the power of articulation) perfectly underftand one another by thefoumb they utter; and that dogs, cats, &c. have each a particular language to thcmfdves', likt different nations. Thus, it may be fuppofcd, that the nightingales of Italy have as... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - Liczba stron: 516
...and beads (though without the power of articulation) perfectly underftnnd one another by the founds they utter; and that dogs, cats, &c. have each a particular language to themfelvcs, like different nations. Thus it may be fuppofed, that the nightingales of Italy have as... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - Liczba stron: 260
...do our utmost to unlearn any trivial or ridiculous habits, which tend to lessen the value of such an inestimable prerogative. It is, indeed, imagined by...like different nations. Thus it may be supposed, that the nightingales of Italy have as fine an ear for their own native woodnotes, as any Signer or Signora... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - Liczba stron: 484
...do our utmost to unlearn any trivial or ridiculous habits, which tend to lessen the value of such an inestimable prerogative. It is, indeed, imagined by...like different nations. Thus it may be supposed, that the nightingales of Italy have as fine an ear for their own native woodnotes, as any Signor or Signora... | |
| William Hayley - 1803 - Liczba stron: 450
...do our utmost to unlearn any trivial or ridiculous habits, which tend to lessen the value of such an inestimable prerogative. It is, indeed, imagined by...one another by the sounds they utter; and that dogs and cats, &c. have each a particular language to themselves, like different nations. Thus it may be... | |
| William Hayley - 1803 - Liczba stron: 452
...power of articulation) perfectly understand one another by the sounds they utter ; and that dogs and cats, &c. have each a particular language to themselves,...like different nations. Thus it may be supposed that the nightingales of Italy have as fine an ear for their own native wood-notes, as any signor or signora... | |
| William Cowper - 1803 - Liczba stron: 456
...do our utmost to unlearn any trivial or ridiculous habits, which tend to lessen the value of such an inestimable prerogative. It is, indeed, imagined by...philosophers, that even birds and beasts (though without trie power of articulation) perfectly understand one another by the sounds they utter; and that dogs... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - Liczba stron: 486
...value of such an inestimable prerogative. 429 It is indeed imagined by some philosophers, that evert birds and beasts ( though without the power of articulation)...one another by the sounds they utter ; and that dogs and cats, &c. have each a particular language to themselves, like different nations. Thus it may be... | |
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