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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... represented as being , under almost any form , a dull and frivolous pursuit . It may be so to those whose attention is confined to arbitrary rules , founded on the mere forms of words : but when we consider the faculty of speech as the ...
... represented as being , under almost any form , a dull and frivolous pursuit . It may be so to those whose attention is confined to arbitrary rules , founded on the mere forms of words : but when we consider the faculty of speech as the ...
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... represented , in their structure and modifications . The hieroglyphics of Egypt , from a common principle , must have had a tendency to retard the im- mediate adoption and progress of letters . This previous system of theirs must have ...
... represented , in their structure and modifications . The hieroglyphics of Egypt , from a common principle , must have had a tendency to retard the im- mediate adoption and progress of letters . This previous system of theirs must have ...
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... represented the gen- eral idea of unity . In composition it entered into the name of the Deity , of light , wisdom , priority , and being in general . The other characters used in the early writings were also alphabetic and hie ...
... represented the gen- eral idea of unity . In composition it entered into the name of the Deity , of light , wisdom , priority , and being in general . The other characters used in the early writings were also alphabetic and hie ...
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... represented as hav- ing no meaning . In this way the theories re- specting articles , particles , and auxiliaries ; dis- junctive conjunctions , and postpositive preposi- tions , result from vain attempts of grammarians to supply the ...
... represented as hav- ing no meaning . In this way the theories re- specting articles , particles , and auxiliaries ; dis- junctive conjunctions , and postpositive preposi- tions , result from vain attempts of grammarians to supply the ...
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... represents . Adjectives are words used with nouns , to specify or describe them ; as , her second and third daugh- ters are amiable and dutiful children . The first three adjectives specify what particular persons are meant , and the ...
... represents . Adjectives are words used with nouns , to specify or describe them ; as , her second and third daugh- ters are amiable and dutiful children . The first three adjectives specify what particular persons are meant , and the ...
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Strona 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!
Strona 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...
Strona 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?
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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...
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.