Hermes: Or, A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Universal GrammarJames Williams, 1773 - 442 páginas |
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... SUBSTANCES * . Thus Man , Swan , Eagle and Horse are none of them Attributes , but all Substances , be- cause however they may exist in Time and Place , yet neither of these , nor of any thing else do they exift as Energies or ...
... SUBSTANCES * . Thus Man , Swan , Eagle and Horse are none of them Attributes , but all Substances , be- cause however they may exist in Time and Place , yet neither of these , nor of any thing else do they exift as Energies or ...
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... Substances or Attributes , it fol- lows of course that all Words , which are fignificant as Principals , must needs ... Substance and Acci- dent seems to have been admitted by Philofophers of all Sects and Ages . See Categor . c . 2 ...
... Substances or Attributes , it fol- lows of course that all Words , which are fignificant as Principals , must needs ... Substance and Acci- dent seems to have been admitted by Philofophers of all Sects and Ages . See Categor . c . 2 ...
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... Substances , as Houfe , Ship , Watch , Te- lescope , & c . AGAIN , by a more refined operation of our Mind alone , we abstract any Attribute from its neceffary subject , and confider it apart , devoid of its dependence . For example ...
... Substances , as Houfe , Ship , Watch , Te- lescope , & c . AGAIN , by a more refined operation of our Mind alone , we abstract any Attribute from its neceffary subject , and confider it apart , devoid of its dependence . For example ...
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... SUBSTANCES ; the fecond fort we call ARTIFICIAL . Now all thofe feveral Substances have their Genus , their Species , and their In- dividuals . For example in natural Sub- ftances , Animal is a Genus ; Man , a Spe- cies ; Alexander , an ...
... SUBSTANCES ; the fecond fort we call ARTIFICIAL . Now all thofe feveral Substances have their Genus , their Species , and their In- dividuals . For example in natural Sub- ftances , Animal is a Genus ; Man , a Spe- cies ; Alexander , an ...
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... Substance has no Sex , the Substantive is always Neuter . BUT ' tis not fo in Greek , Latin , and many of the modern Tongues . These all of them have Words , fome mafculine , fome feminine ( and thofe too in great multitudes ) which ...
... Substance has no Sex , the Substantive is always Neuter . BUT ' tis not fo in Greek , Latin , and many of the modern Tongues . These all of them have Words , fome mafculine , fome feminine ( and thofe too in great multitudes ) which ...
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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.