Hermes: Or, a Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Language and Universal GrammarH. Woodfall, 1751 - 427 páginas |
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... these two , to select the most refpectable Words , and not thofe that are common and of vulgar ufe , and to connect fuch Words harmoniously one with another , fo as thro ' these things and their confequences , fuch as Perfpicuity ...
... these two , to select the most refpectable Words , and not thofe that are common and of vulgar ufe , and to connect fuch Words harmoniously one with another , fo as thro ' these things and their confequences , fuch as Perfpicuity ...
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... these Arts diftinctly and apart . We may ob- ferve , if we please , how perfectly they co - incide . GRAMMAR is equally requifite to every one of the reft . And though LOGIC may indeed fubfift without RHE- TORIC OF POETRY , yet fo ...
... these Arts diftinctly and apart . We may ob- ferve , if we please , how perfectly they co - incide . GRAMMAR is equally requifite to every one of the reft . And though LOGIC may indeed fubfift without RHE- TORIC OF POETRY , yet fo ...
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... these two , ' tis plain that every Speech or Sentence , as far as it exhibits the Soul , must of course respect one or other of thefe . If we affert , then is it a Sentence which respects the Powers of PERCEPTION . For . what indeed is ...
... these two , ' tis plain that every Speech or Sentence , as far as it exhibits the Soul , must of course respect one or other of thefe . If we affert , then is it a Sentence which respects the Powers of PERCEPTION . For . what indeed is ...
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... ( fuch as , And , The , With , & c . ) Not that these last have no meaning at all , but in fact they never have it , but when in company , or affociated . Now Now it should seem that this Diftinc - Ch.III , 26 HERME S.
... ( fuch as , And , The , With , & c . ) Not that these last have no meaning at all , but in fact they never have it , but when in company , or affociated . Now Now it should seem that this Diftinc - Ch.III , 26 HERME S.
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... these , nor of any thing else do they exist as Ener- gies or Affections . AND TUM SOLAS ESSE PARTES ORATIONIS ; cætera vero , ADMINICULA vel JUNCTURAS earum : quo- modo navium partes funt tabulæ & trabes , cætera au- tem ( id eft , cera ...
... these , nor of any thing else do they exist as Ener- gies or Affections . AND TUM SOLAS ESSE PARTES ORATIONIS ; cætera vero , ADMINICULA vel JUNCTURAS earum : quo- modo navium partes funt tabulæ & trabes , cætera au- tem ( id eft , cera ...
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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.