Essay on Language: As Connected with the Faculties of the Mind, and as Applied to Things in Nature and Art ...C. Wiley, 1825 - 203 |
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... course of instruction in language , it is not from intentional want of candor ; but from de- liberate conviction , that a large portion of what is re- ceived as the exposition of speech , is alike opposed to fact , to science , and to ...
... course of instruction in language , it is not from intentional want of candor ; but from de- liberate conviction , that a large portion of what is re- ceived as the exposition of speech , is alike opposed to fact , to science , and to ...
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... course of instruction . These difficulties , however , do not consist in the want of interest in the nature of language itself , but in the want of skill properly to explain it . 4. Among persons of more conceit than intelli- gence , it ...
... course of instruction . These difficulties , however , do not consist in the want of interest in the nature of language itself , but in the want of skill properly to explain it . 4. Among persons of more conceit than intelli- gence , it ...
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... therefore by the suggestions of so able a counsellor , we shall lay down a few elementary * Speaking as the vulgar , thinking as the wise . principles , as the general foundation for a course of 1 * INTRODUCTORY DISSERTATION . 5.
... therefore by the suggestions of so able a counsellor , we shall lay down a few elementary * Speaking as the vulgar , thinking as the wise . principles , as the general foundation for a course of 1 * INTRODUCTORY DISSERTATION . 5.
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... course of reasoning . 11. As far as possible the regions of mere con- jecture will be avoided . To Lord Monbodde and the learned Dr. Wilkins may be left the fine- wrought theories , respecting the first name which an untutored savage ...
... course of reasoning . 11. As far as possible the regions of mere con- jecture will be avoided . To Lord Monbodde and the learned Dr. Wilkins may be left the fine- wrought theories , respecting the first name which an untutored savage ...
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... course combined with their settled habits and prejudices . Being made familiar by use , they would not be likely to reject it , for a new system , though it might be one intrinsically better . For some reasons of this kind , it ...
... course combined with their settled habits and prejudices . Being made familiar by use , they would not be likely to reject it , for a new system , though it might be one intrinsically better . For some reasons of this kind , it ...
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