Hermes: Or, A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Universal GrammarC. Nourse, 1786 - 442 páginas |
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Adjectives Adverbs Affertion affume alfo alſo anſwer antient Aorift Article Attributes becauſe Boethius C.VII Cafe called Caufe Cauſe Ch.III Ch.IV Ch.XI Cicero denote Diftinction diftinguiſhed effential enim exift exiſtence exprefs faid fame farther feems fenfible fhall fhould fignificant fimple firft firſt fome fomething Form ftill fuch fuppofe Grammarians Greek hence Ideas infinite inftances itſelf laft Language Latin Mode moſt muſt Nature notion Noun Number obferved paffage pafs Paft Participles paſt Perfon Philofophers Plato poffible pofitive prefent Prepofitions Prifcian Pronoun quæ quod racter reafon refpect reft ſay Senfation Senfe Sentence ſhall ſpeak Species Speech ſtill Stoics Subftantive Subject ſuch Tenfes thefe themſelves Theodore Gaza theſe things thofe thoſe tion tives Treatife univerfal uſe Verbs vero whofe Words ἂν γὰρ δὲ εἶναι ἐκ ἐν καὶ καὶ τὸ κατὰ μὲν μὴ πρὸς τὰ τε τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Página 422 - I say, that the liberal (if they have a relish for letters) would inspect the finished models of Grecian literature ; that they would not waste those hours, which they cannot recall, upon the meaner productions of the French and English press, upon that fungous growth of novels and of pamphlets, where it is to be feared they rarely find any rational pleasure, and more rarely still any solid improvement.
Página 419 - And hence it followed, there was not a subject to be found, which could not with propriety be expressed in Greek. Here were words and numbers for the humour of an Aristophanes ; for the native elegance of a Philemon or Menander ; for the amorous strains of a Mimnermus or Sappho ; for the rural lays of a Theocritus or Bion ; and for the sublime conceptions of a Sophocles or Homer.
Página v - He thinks nothing more absurd than the common notion of instruction, as if science were to be poured into the mind like water into a cistern, that passively waits to receive all that comes.
Página 103 - ... the end of one time and the beginning of another. Let us suppose, for example, the lines AB, B C. n AC I say, that the point B is the end of the line AB, and the beginning of the line B C.
Página 267 - All which instances, with many others of like kind, shew that the first words of men, like their first ideas, had an immediate reference to sensible objects, and that in after-days, when they began to discern with their intellect, they took those words which they found already made, and transferred them by metaphor to intellectual conceptions.
Página 293 - Be the subject itself immediately lucrative or not, the nerves of reason are braced by the mere employ, and we become abler actors in the drama of life, whether our part be of the busier or of the sedater kind.
Página 422 - ... drudgery), it were to be wished, I say, that the liberal (if they have a relish for letters) would inspect the finished models of Grecian literature...
Página 268 - ... to Fools appear as a wife Man, will certainly among the wife ever pafs for a Fool. Such a Man's Intellect comprehends antient Philofophy, as his Eye comprehends a diftant Profpect.