Hermes: Or, a Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Language and Universal GrammarH. Woodfall, 1751 - 427 páginas |
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... Something venerable . Add to this , what from its antiquity is but little known , has from that very circuin- ftance the recommendation of novelty ; fo that here , as in other inftances , Extremes may be faid to meet . Farther fill , as ...
... Something venerable . Add to this , what from its antiquity is but little known , has from that very circuin- ftance the recommendation of novelty ; fo that here , as in other inftances , Extremes may be faid to meet . Farther fill , as ...
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... something Paft . As Paft , it has no existence but in THE MIND OF MEMORY , fince had it in fact any other , it could not properly be called Paft . ' Twas this intimate connection be- tween TIME , and the SOUL , that made some Phi ...
... something Paft . As Paft , it has no existence but in THE MIND OF MEMORY , fince had it in fact any other , it could not properly be called Paft . ' Twas this intimate connection be- tween TIME , and the SOUL , that made some Phi ...
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... something , which now is , out of that " ftate , in which it now is , and so far therefore to 66 deftroy that State . " The reverse of all this holds with THINGS 66 THAT EXIST ETERNALLY . Thefe exift not in " Time , because Time is fo ...
... something , which now is , out of that " ftate , in which it now is , and so far therefore to 66 deftroy that State . " The reverse of all this holds with THINGS 66 THAT EXIST ETERNALLY . Thefe exift not in " Time , because Time is fo ...
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... Something less than an imperfect Co - incider , or an imperfect Pre- dicable . Thefe were the Apellations which they gave to Verbs , when employed along with Nouns to the forming of Propofitions . As to the Name of ' PH MA , or VERB ...
... Something less than an imperfect Co - incider , or an imperfect Pre- dicable . Thefe were the Apellations which they gave to Verbs , when employed along with Nouns to the forming of Propofitions . As to the Name of ' PH MA , or VERB ...
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... something fo effectually spoken , as all are supposed to hear , and all to obey . So Terence , Dice , Edico vobis - Eun . V. 5. 20 . which ( as Donatus tells us in his Comment ) is an " Aunos . Fari , to speak , Effari , to speak out ...
... something fo effectually spoken , as all are supposed to hear , and all to obey . So Terence , Dice , Edico vobis - Eun . V. 5. 20 . which ( as Donatus tells us in his Comment ) is an " Aunos . Fari , to speak , Effari , to speak out ...
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Termos e frases comuns
Adjectives Adverbs Affertion affume AGEN alfo alſo Ammonius anſwer antient Article Attributes becauſe Boethius C.VIII Cafe called Caufe Cauſe character Cicero co-incide Conjunctions denote diftinction effential elſe enim exift exiſtence exprefs faid fame farther feems fhall fignificant fimple firft firſt fome fomething Form ftill fuch fuppofe Grammarians Greek hence ibid Ideas infinite inftances Intenfion itſelf Knowlege laft Language laſt Latin leaſt Mode moſt Motion muſt Nature Noun Number obferve Paft Participles paſt Perfon Philofopher Plato poffible Pofitive prefent Prepofitions Prifcian Pronoun quæ quod reaſon refpect ſay ſeems Senfation Senfe Sentence ſhall ſhould ſome ſpeaks Species Speech ſtill Subftantive Subject ſuch Tenfes thefe themſelves Theodore Gaza theſe things thofe thoſe thro tion tive univerfal UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR uſe Verbs whofe Words γὰρ δὲ εἰς ἐκ ἐν καὶ καὶ τὸ κατὰ μὲν μὴ τὰ τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Página 49 - Of nations ; there the capitol thou seest Above the rest lifting his stately head On the Tarpeian rock, her citadel Impregnable, and there Mount Palatine, The...
Página 424 - ... 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 46 - Regent of Day, and all th' Horizon round Invested with bright Rays, jocund to run His Longitude through Heav'n's high road: the gray Dawn, and the Pleiades before him danc'd Shedding sweet influence...
Página 423 - Plato wrote, appears to suit so 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 so elegant in any other manner.
Página 269 - 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 112 - There is nothing appears so clearly an object of the mind or intellect only as the future does, since we can find no place for its existence any where else : not but the same, if we consider, is equally true of the past ." "Well, co on — What stops the plockit? — Can't you reat Enclish now...
Página 259 - For he afterwards acknowledges that some of them—" have a kind of obscure signification, when taken alone ; and that they appear in grammar like Zoophytes in Nature, a kind of middle beings of amphibious character, which, by sharing the attributes of the higher and the lower, conduce to link the whole together.
Página 417 - In the short space of little more than a century they became such statesmen, warriors, orators, historians, physicians, poets, critics, painters, sculptors? architects, and (last of all) philosophers, that one can hardly help considering that golden period, as a providential event in honour of human nature, to shew to what perfection, the species might ascend*.
Página 357 - would not be adequate to the purpose of signature, if it had not the power to retain as well as to receive the impression, the same holds of the soul with respect to sense and imagination. Sense is its receptive power ; imagination its retentive. Had it sense without imagination, it would not be as wax, but as water, where, though all impressions be instantly made, yet as soon as they are made they are instantly lost.
Página 408 - Greece ; our terms in music and painting, that these came from Italy ; our phrases in cookery and war, that we learnt these from the French ; and our phrases in navigation, that we were taught by the Flemings and Low Dutch.