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Of pronouns The neceſſity of invent | 43 |
Of the article and the various uſes | 53 |
Of the uſe of the article in French | 75 |
Gh | 86 |
Of rhythm in general and the divi | 301 |
Continuation of the ſubject of quantity | 329 |
Introduction | 337 |
The difference betwixt the arrange | 344 |
Objection to the anțient compoſition | 353 |
of language And firſt of | 366 |
Of the compoſition of Jyllables into | 373 |
Of the compoſition of accents in the | 379 |
Of the verb commonly ſo called | 117 |
Of tenſes | 125 |
Continuation of the fame fibject | 149 |
Of the modes perſons numbers | 161 |
Of participles adjectives prepoſitions | 173 |
Diviſion of words into primitive | 182 |
Whether words are by nature fignifi | 194 |
Pag | 202 |
BOOK II | 222 |
The analyſis of articulate founds into | 228 |
Of alphabetical characters That | 242 |
Of the antient accents That they | 269 |
not much different from the Engliſh | 401 |
Djf xhe compoſition of quantity and | 407 |
The concluſion of the ſubject | 420 |
Of the Chineſe language The moſt | 426 |
Of the philoſophical language invent | 440 |
That a language of art muſt have | 483 |
Concluſion of the ſecond part | 507 |
Dife | 513 |
Of the found of the Greek language | 543 |
Of the compoſition of the antients | 555 |
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accent according action acute alſo analyſis antient appears authors becauſe beginning belong betwixt called caſe characters common compoſition connection conſidered conſonants denotes derived diſtinguiſhed doubt Engliſh evident example explained expreſſed expreſſion fame firſt formed fyllables give given greater Greek guage idea intervals invention joined kind known language laſt Latin learned leaſt length leſs letters likewiſe manner mark matter mean mentioned mind moſt motion muſic muſt nature notes noun obſerved particularly paſſage paſt perfect perſon philoſophy Plato preſent principal produced pronounced proper quantity reaſon relation reſpect rhythm roots rule ſaid ſame ſay ſcience ſenſe ſeveral ſhall ſhort ſhould ſignifies ſome ſounds ſpeaking ſpeech ſubject ſubſtance ſuch ſuppoſe tenſe ther theſe things third thoſe tion tone uſe variety verb verſe voice vowel whereas whole words writing written
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Seite 179 - S« and yt, of which laft it is very difficult to afcertain the precife meaning : but it certainly has a meaning ; and a man much converfant in the Attic writers will defiderate it, if it be any where wanting.
Seite 395 - POE T's PRAYER. IF e'er in thy fight I found -favour, Apollo, Defend me from all the difafters which follow : From the knaves and the fools, and the fops of the time, From the drudges in profe, and the triflers in rhyme : From the patch-work and toils of the royal fack-bibber, Thofe dead birth-day odes, and the farces of GIBBER : From fervile attendance on men in high places...
Seite 389 - Lear. Pray, do not mock me * : I am a very foolifh fond old man, Fourfcore and upward * ; and, to deal plainly, I fear, I am not in my perfeft mind 5.
Seite 388 - I think, more than any other of our poets, fometimes breaks the meafure of the verfe altogether ; as in this line : " Burnt after him to the bottomlefs pit." Nor are we to imagine, that Milton did this through negligence, or as not knowing the nature of the verfe he ufed ; but it was to give a variety to his verfe, and fome relief to the ear, which might otherwife be tired with the conftant repetition of the fame meafure. It is for this reafon that we have, both in Homer and Virgil, irregularities...
Seite 71 - Peripatetic fchool. . eel as the genus of the fpecies ; and the Ch. 6. meaning of the propofition is, that man participates of the general idea of animal. The idea therefore of animal, is more general than that of man, which is comprehended under it ; fo that it is impoffible we can affirm the whole genus animal of man, any more than we can affirm the whole fpecies man of any individual. For though we can fay, Sax^arnc \<n...
Seite 162 - I hold it to be no mood, though it be commonly called fo ; becaufe it exprefTes no energy of the mind of the fpeaker,, but fimply the action of the verb, with the addition of time. It is therefore either ufed as a noun, or it ferves to connect the verb, with ano• When this conditional or relative affirmation is a contingency dependent upon will or inclination, the...
Seite 40 - Of this third kind of noun there are fome fpeciefes which deferve particular notice. And firft, there is one of them made by joining the article to the infinitive of a verb ; for the nature of this mood being to denote the action of the verb fimply, with the addition only of time, but without any expreffion, either of perfon, or of the affection of the mind of the fpeaker, by the article being prefixed it becomes a noun, having all the variety of cafes which nouns have, and being like them made the...
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| Titel | Of the Origin and Progress of Language Band 48 von English Linguistics, 1500-1800: Facsimile Reprints Band 48,Ausgaben 1-6 von English linguistics 1500-1800 |
| Autor/in | James Burnet |
| Verlag | Georg Olms Verlag, 1774 |
| ISBN | 3487405849, 9783487405841 |
| Länge | 590 Seiten |
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