Of the Origin and Progress of LanguageGeorg Olms Verlag, 1773 - 590 Seiten |
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... evident . But , in the first place , it will be proper to fhew wherein the art of language confifts , which is what I pro- pose to do in this second part of the work . When that is done , it is hoped very little argument will be ...
... evident . But , in the first place , it will be proper to fhew wherein the art of language confifts , which is what I pro- pose to do in this second part of the work . When that is done , it is hoped very little argument will be ...
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... the other , it is evident , that the memory would be greatly overburdened , and confequently the lan- guage unfit for ufe ; and yet it is neceffary for for clear and diftinct expreffion , that every Ch . 8 Part II . THE ORIGIN AND.
... the other , it is evident , that the memory would be greatly overburdened , and confequently the lan- guage unfit for ufe ; and yet it is neceffary for for clear and diftinct expreffion , that every Ch . 8 Part II . THE ORIGIN AND.
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... evident it was not of fo eafy invention ; and that was by expreffing things which in their nature are con- nected together , by words which have alfo a connection with one another . As this is one of the chief artifices of language , it ...
... evident it was not of fo eafy invention ; and that was by expreffing things which in their nature are con- nected together , by words which have alfo a connection with one another . As this is one of the chief artifices of language , it ...
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... evident that no barbarous nation could have fixed this boundary of the infinity of numbers , but must have got the invention from fome other nation , confide- rably advanced in arts and fciences , in the fame man- ner , as I fuppofe ...
... evident that no barbarous nation could have fixed this boundary of the infinity of numbers , but must have got the invention from fome other nation , confide- rably advanced in arts and fciences , in the fame man- ner , as I fuppofe ...
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... evident , that any number of words , expreffing in the most clear and accurate manner the several things they stand for , would convey no meaning at all , if they were not fome one way or another con- nected together . For though the ...
... evident , that any number of words , expreffing in the most clear and accurate manner the several things they stand for , would convey no meaning at all , if they were not fome one way or another con- nected together . For though the ...
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...