Glossology: Being a Treatise on the Nature of Language, and on the Language of NatureGeorge Putnam, 1852 - 240 ページ |
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10th century Ægypt Ægyptian akin alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon Arabic become called Celt century characters Chinese common compound connexion consonants Copt Cratylus declension denote Dêvanâgarî dialects diphthong elements employed Engl English language euphonic false former forms French genuine Germ German grammar grammarians Greek guage guttural hence Hermogenes human ideas invention Ital Italian kind knowledge labials Latin learning less letters Magyar mark means mental mind modern modified mouth names nasal nations nature nouns objects organs of speech origin participle peculiar Philology Phoenic phonetic Phonographic Plato points Portug present pron pronounced pronunciation race reader reason represented roots Sanscrit Sassanidic sense shape Shemitic signify signs simple Slav Slavic so-called Socrates sounds Span speak spelling syllables symbol teaching Teutic things thou tion tongue truth utter verb voice vowels whence whole words writing written
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62 ページ - Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands. They have mouths, But they speak not : Eyes have they, But they see not : They have ears, But they hear not : Noses have they, But they smell not : They have hands, But they handle not : Feet have they, But they walk not : 230 Neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them ; So is every one that trusteth in them.
36 ページ - Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto [277] all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
35 ページ - Lords and Commons of England ! Consider what nation it is, whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors ; a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
142 ページ - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatsover Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
173 ページ - I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. And sounds as if it should be writ on satin. With syllables which breathe of the sweet South.
11 ページ - And lastly, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort : and although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well, Loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes...
38 ページ - ... as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels. For we Englishmen being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a southern tongue ; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward ; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French.
35 ページ - ... the school of Pythagoras and the Persian wisdom took beginning from the old philosophy of this island. And that wise and...
179 ページ - The consideration then of ideas and words, as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation, who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
179 ページ - For the perfections of Language, not properly understood, have been one of the chief causes of the imperfections of our philosophy. And indeed, from numberless passages throughout his Essay , Mr. Locke seems to me to have suspected something of this sort : and especially from what he hints in his last chapter ; where, speaking of the doctrine of signs, he says...