Hermes: Or, a Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Language and Universal GrammarH. Woodfall, 1751 - 427 páginas |
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Página viii
... names are hardly known . The Fate indeed of antient Authors ( as we have happened to mention them ) is not unworthy of our notice . A few of them furvive in the Libraries of the learned , where fome venerable Folio , that 4 of viii PREF ...
... names are hardly known . The Fate indeed of antient Authors ( as we have happened to mention them ) is not unworthy of our notice . A few of them furvive in the Libraries of the learned , where fome venerable Folio , that 4 of viii PREF ...
Página ix
... name , just fuffices to give them a kind of nominal existence . The reft have long fallen into a deeper obfcurity , their very names , when mentioned , affecting us as little , as the names , when we read them , of thofe fubordi- nate ...
... name , just fuffices to give them a kind of nominal existence . The reft have long fallen into a deeper obfcurity , their very names , when mentioned , affecting us as little , as the names , when we read them , of thofe fubordi- nate ...
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... name of CONNECTIVES . - AND thus it is that all WORDS whatever are either Principals or Acceffories ; or un- der other Names , either fignificant from themselves , or fignificant by relation . — If fignificant from themselves , they are ...
... name of CONNECTIVES . - AND thus it is that all WORDS whatever are either Principals or Acceffories ; or un- der other Names , either fignificant from themselves , or fignificant by relation . — If fignificant from themselves , they are ...
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... Name . FROM these Principles it is , that Words following the nature and genius of Things , fuch Subftantives admit of NUMBER as de- note Genera or Species , while those , which denote ( b ) Individuals , in ftrictness admit it not ...
... Name . FROM these Principles it is , that Words following the nature and genius of Things , fuch Subftantives admit of NUMBER as de- note Genera or Species , while those , which denote ( b ) Individuals , in ftrictness admit it not ...
Página 41
... Name extends to the Kin- dred , as the specific Name extends to the Indivi- duals . A third caufe which contributed to make proper Names become Plural , was the high Character or Eminence of fome one Individual , whofe Name be- came ...
... Name extends to the Kin- dred , as the specific Name extends to the Indivi- duals . A third caufe which contributed to make proper Names become Plural , was the high Character or Eminence of fome one Individual , whofe Name be- came ...
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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 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.