 | James Harris - 1751 - 484 páginas
...Principium ftrtaft tjl maxima tetiuspart. ut ditifoltt. • idtoqut tft diffidlUmum. Cum y fim Ch. II. elementary Sounds, we owe that variety of articulate Voices, which have been fufficicnt to explain the Sentiments of fo innumerable a Multitude, as all the prefent and paft Generations... | |
 | James Harris - 1806 - 528 páginas
...Species from them. Metaph. V. c. 3. 1 AND thus it is that to Principles apparently so trivial//-) as about twenty plain elementary Sounds, we owe that variety of articulate Voices, which have Y 3 been (fJ The Egyptians paid (Urine Honours to the Inventor of Letters, and Regulator of Language,... | |
 | James Harris - 1806 - 494 páginas
...them, Metaph. V. c. 3. 1 BOOK THE THIRD. AND thus it is that to Principles apparently so trivial//-) as about twenty plain elementary Sounds, we owe that variety of articulate Voices, which have Y3 been VJ The Egyptians paid divine Honours to the Inventor of Letters, and Regulator of Language,... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 710 páginas
...137. f Book iii.chal), 2. p. 334. " That to about twenty plain elementary sounds, we owe thatn. riety of articulate voices which have been sufficient to explain the sentiments of to innumerable a multitude, as all the present and past generations of men." As there are but a small... | |
 | Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Nicole - 1818 - 448 páginas
...combined produce an oration or 'discbnrse. And thus it is that to principles apparently so trivial f, as about twenty plain elementary sounds, we owe that variety of articulate Voices, tthich have been sufficient to explain the sentiments of so innumerable am altitude, as atl the present... | |
 | 1823 - 592 páginas
...to the imputation of a Hysteronproteron, if, after noticing the abuses and perversions of words, 1 proceed to those of individual letters ; but the importance...and assuming every variety of collocation, without anyone people being able to assign reasons for deviating from the order of its neighbours. An elucidation... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 páginas
...— with the alphabet. So obscure and incomprehensible is the origin of letters, that many pnthors have been glad to solve the difficulty of their invention...up to the Chinese, which reckons by thousands, and aseuming every variety of collocation, without any one people being able to assign reasons for deviating... | |
 | 1823 - 592 páginas
...the difficulty of their invention by referring H to divine inspiration. In that case, however, trIere would have been some conformity of character, number,...thousands, and assuming every variety of collocation Svithout any one people being able to assign reasons for deviating from the order of its neighbours.... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1823 - 448 páginas
...quote the words of the author of Hermes, " It is only to about twenty plain elementary sounds that we owe that variety of articulate voices which have been sufficient to explain the sentiments of so innumerable a multitude, as all the present abd past generations of men."* The twenty-four plain... | |
 | James Harris - 1825 - 500 páginas
...in Species from them. Metaph. V. c. 3. AND thus it is that to Principles apparently so trivial/' as about twenty plain elementary Sounds, we owe that variety of articulate Voices, which have been w The Egyptians paid divine Honours to the Inventor of letters, and Regulator of Language, whom they... | |
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In that case, however, there would have been some conformity of character, number, and sequence ; whereas there is a marked difference in all these constituents among the various nations of the earth. The learned author of Hermes informs us, that to about... 
