Of the Origin and Progress of LanguageGeorg Olms Verlag, 1774 - 590 Seiten |
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... speaking than speech , an art of language was at laft formed . And what I chiefly propofe , in this part of the work , is to fhew wherein this art confists , and how great the difficulty must have been , even from the rude materials ...
... speaking than speech , an art of language was at laft formed . And what I chiefly propofe , in this part of the work , is to fhew wherein this art confists , and how great the difficulty must have been , even from the rude materials ...
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... , but likewise the Science , fo that we may speak as be- comes rational creatures , it ought to be ac- counted an art of no lefs dignity , than ufe . BOOK воок I. Of the Analysis of the FORMAL PART of 4 Part II . THE ORIGIN , & c .
... , but likewise the Science , fo that we may speak as be- comes rational creatures , it ought to be ac- counted an art of no lefs dignity , than ufe . BOOK воок I. Of the Analysis of the FORMAL PART of 4 Part II . THE ORIGIN , & c .
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... speak must have been very rude and imperfect ; and that the first lan- guages among men , though they may have ferved the purposes of communica- tion in a very narrow fphere of life , with few wants , and as few arts to fupply those ...
... speak must have been very rude and imperfect ; and that the first lan- guages among men , though they may have ferved the purposes of communica- tion in a very narrow fphere of life , with few wants , and as few arts to fupply those ...
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... speaking ; for , in a finite space , fuch as this our earth , or what of the heavens we fee , it is impoffible there can be an infinite number of any thing ; but it is fo with refpect to our capacity of com- prehenfion , and to the use ...
... speaking ; for , in a finite space , fuch as this our earth , or what of the heavens we fee , it is impoffible there can be an infinite number of any thing ; but it is fo with refpect to our capacity of com- prehenfion , and to the use ...
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... speaking , farther from infinity than the number of individuals ; yet with refpect to our capacity , they also may be confidered as infinite . In proportion as our knowledge advances in the feveral arts and sciences , we are daily ...
... speaking , farther from infinity than the number of individuals ; yet with refpect to our capacity , they also may be confidered as infinite . In proportion as our knowledge advances in the feveral arts and sciences , we are daily ...
Inhalt
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Of pronouns The neceffity of invent | 43 |
Of the article and the various ufes | 53 |
Of the ufe of the article in French | 75 |
Ch | 86 |
Of rhythm in general and the divi | 301 |
Continuation of the fubject of quantity | 329 |
Introduction | 337 |
The difference betwixt the arrange | 344 |
Objection to the antient compofition | 353 |
Of the compofition of Demofthenes | 363 |
Of the compofition of fyllables into | 373 |
Of the compofition of accents in the | 379 |
Of the verb commonly fo called | 117 |
Of tenfes | 125 |
Continuation of the fame fubject | 149 |
Of the modes perfons numbers | 161 |
Of participles adjectives prepofitions | 173 |
Divifion of words into primitive | 182 |
Whether words are by nature fignifi | 194 |
воок II | 222 |
The analyfis of articulate founds into | 228 |
Of alphabetical characters That | 242 |
Of the antient accents That they | 269 |
not much different from the English | 401 |
Of the compofition of quantity and | 407 |
The conclufion of the fubject The | 420 |
Of the Chinese language The most | 426 |
Of the philofophical language invent | 440 |
That a language of art must have | 483 |
Conclufion of the ſecond part | 507 |
Diff | 513 |
Of the found of the Greek language | 543 |
Of the compofition of the antients | 555 |
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accent action acute accent alfo alſo analyſis antient becauſe befides betwixt cafe called Chineſe Cicero compofition confidered confonants Cratylus Demofthenes denotes derived diphthong diſtinction diſtinguiſhed divifion duads Engliſh exiſtence expreffed expreffion faid fame fcience fecond fenfe fentence feveral fhall fhew fhewn fhort fhould fignifies fimple firft firſt fome formed fpeaking fpecies fpeech fubftance fubject fuch fuppofe fyllables greateſt Greek language guage himſelf invention itſelf juſt kind laft laſt Latin learned leaſt lefs letters likewife mentioned moſt mufic muſt nature neceffary noun obferved paffage paſt perfon philofophy Plato Plutarch pofition prefent preferved prepofitions profe pronounced purpoſe racters reafon refpect rhythm ſay ſpeak ſpeaker ſtill ſtudy ſtyle tenfe tenſe thefe themſelves Theodorus Gaza ther theſe things thofe thoſe tion tranflated underſtand underſtood uſe verb verfe verſe vowel words writing ἐν καὶ τῆς τὸ τῶν
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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...