Hermes: Or, A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Universal GrammarJames Williams, 1773 - 442 páginas |
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... Principles of those Powers . It has a farther claim to your Lordship's Patronage , by be- ing connected in fome degree with that politer Literature , which , in the most important scenes of Bufi- ness , you have ftill found time to ...
... Principles of those Powers . It has a farther claim to your Lordship's Patronage , by be- ing connected in fome degree with that politer Literature , which , in the most important scenes of Bufi- ness , you have ftill found time to ...
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... the Dignity of the Confequences , let him honour the Principles . THE following Story may not impro- perly be here inferted . " When the Fame B 4 " of Ch . I , " of Heraclitus was celebrated through- BOOK THE FIRST . 7.
... the Dignity of the Confequences , let him honour the Principles . THE following Story may not impro- perly be here inferted . " When the Fame B 4 " of Ch . I , " of Heraclitus was celebrated through- BOOK THE FIRST . 7.
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... Principles , on which the whole depends . THUS in SPEECH for example - All men , even the loweft , can speak their Mother - Tongue . Yet how many of this multitude can neither write , nor even read ? How many of those , who are thus far ...
... Principles , on which the whole depends . THUS in SPEECH for example - All men , even the loweft , can speak their Mother - Tongue . Yet how many of this multitude can neither write , nor even read ? How many of those , who are thus far ...
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... the complex Subjects are more familiar to us , and better known . Thus therefore it is that even a Child knows how to put a Sentence together , and say , Socrates walketh ; 13 II . une ado Work , 2 fee Principles 10 HERMES .
... the complex Subjects are more familiar to us , and better known . Thus therefore it is that even a Child knows how to put a Sentence together , and say , Socrates walketh ; 13 II . une ado Work , 2 fee Principles 10 HERMES .
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James Harris. 13 II . une ado Work , 2 fee Principles Ch . II . follow the Order confonant to buman. Desno Aghwath #f Viene igends . TД SezECH for , even the lowest . Mother Tongue . Ye muide can neit read ? How many of fa literate , know ...
James Harris. 13 II . une ado Work , 2 fee Principles Ch . II . follow the Order confonant to buman. Desno Aghwath #f Viene igends . TД SezECH for , even the lowest . Mother Tongue . Ye muide can neit read ? How many of fa literate , know ...
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Adjectives Adverbs Affertion affume alfo alſo anſwer antient Arift Ariftotle Article Attributes becauſe Boethius C.VIII Cafe called Caufe cauſe Cicero courſe denote diftinctions diſtinguiſhed effential elſe enim exift exiſtence exprefs Extenfion faid fame farther feems fignificant fimple firft firſt fome fomething Form ftill fuch fuppofe Greek hence himſelf Ideas infinite inftances itſelf laft Language laſt Latin leaſt Mode moſt muſt Nature Noun obferve paffage Paft paſt Perfon Philofophers Plato poffible Pofitive prefent Prepofitions Prifcian Pronoun quæ quod reaſon reft reſpect ſay Senfe Sentence ſhall ſhould ſome ſpeaking Species ſtill Subftantive Subject ſuch ſuppoſe Tenfes thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thro tion tive Treatife univerfal UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR uſe Verbs vero whofe Words ἂν γὰρ δὲ εἶναι εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ καὶ τὸ κατὰ μὲν μὴ πρὸς τὰ τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Página 338 - The sum of all is, that words are the symbols of ideas both general and particular ; yet of the general, primarily, essentially, and immediately ; of the particular, only secondarily, accidentally, and mediately.
Página 321 - The truth is, that every medium through which we exhibit any thing to another's contemplation, is either derived from natural attributes, and then it is an imitation; or else from accidents quite arbitrary, and then it is a symbol b.
Página 261 - 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 97 - ... 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. In the same manner let us suppose AB, BC to represent certain times, and let B be a now or instant.
Página 118 - God want praife : Millions of fpiritual creatures walk the earth Unfeen, both when we wake, and when we fleep.
Página 411 - Plato wrote, appears to fuit fo accurately with the Stile of both, that when we read either of the two, we cannot help thinking, that it is he alone, who has hit its' character, and that it could not have appeared fo elegant in any other manner.
Página 285 - 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 257 - Accusatives, for both those places are already filled ; the Nominative, by the substance Sun ; the Accusative by the substance Earth. Not as Attributes to these last, or to any other thing : for, attributes by nature, they neither are nor can be made *. Here then we perceive the rise and use of Prepositions. By these we connect those substantives to sentences, which at the time are unable to coalesce of themselves. Let us assumo for instance a pair of these connectives, THRO' and WITH, -and mark...
Página 396 - Hence they talked of kings as gods ; and of themselves as the meanest and most abject reptiles. Nothing was either great or little in moderation, but every sentiment was heightened by incredible hyperbole. Thus, though they sometimes ascended into the great and magnificent, they as frequently degenerated into the tumid and bombast.