Hermes, Or, A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Universal GrammarJ. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1771 - 442 หน้า |
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Adjectives Adverbs Affertion affume alfo alſo anſwer antient Arift Ariftotle Article Attributes becauſe C.VIII Cafe called Caufe Cauſe Ch.III Ch.IV Ch.XI character Cicero co-incide Conjunctions definite denote Diftinction effential elſe enim exift exiſtence exprefs faid fame farther feem fhall fhould fignificant fimple firft firſt fome fomething Form fpeaking ftill fuch fuppofe Grammarians Greek hence Ideas infinite inftances Intenfion itſelf laft Language Latin mean Modes moſt muſt Name Nature Noun Number obferved Oppofition Paft Participles Perfon Philofopher Plato Pofitive prefent Prepofitions Prifcian Pronouns quæ quod racter reaſon reft reſpect ſay ſeems Senfation Senfe Sentences ſhall ſpeaks Species Speech Subftantive Subject ſuch tences Tenfes thefe themſelves Theodore Gaza theſe things thofe thoſe tion tive uſed Verbs whofe Words ἂν γὰρ δὲ εἶναι ἐκ ἐν καὶ καὶ τὸ κατὰ μὲν μὴ πρὸς τὰ τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τῷ τῶν ὡς
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หน้า 396 - Our terms in polite Literature prove, that this came from 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. These many and very different Sources of our Language may be the cause, why it is so...
หน้า 269 - The Peripatetics held it to be no case, and likened the noun, in this its primary and original form, to a perpendicular line, such, for example, as the line A B.
หน้า 319 - The truth is, that every medium through which we exhibit any thing to another's contemplation, is either derived from natural attributes, and then it is an imitation; or else from accidents quite arbitrary, and then it is a symbol b.
หน้า 399 - Hence therefore their language became, like their ideas, copious in all terms expressive of things political, and well adapted to the purposes both of history and popular eloquence. But what was their philosophy ? — As a nation it was none, if we may credit their ablest writers.
หน้า 411 - Plato wrote, appears to fuit fo 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 fo elegant in any other manner.
หน้า 413 - The same application, the same quantity of habit, will fit us for one as completely as for the other. And as to those who tell us, with an air of seeming wisdom, that it is men, and not books, we must study to become knowing ; this I have always remarked, from repeated experience, to be the common consolation and language of dunces.
หน้า 287 - Be the subject itself immediately lucrative or not, the nerves of reason are braced by the mere employ, and we become abler actors in the drama of life, whether our part be of the busier or of the sedater kind.
หน้า 382 - First comes that huge body, the sensible world. Then this, and its attributes, beget sensible ideas. Then, out of sensible ideas, by a kind of lopping and pruning, are made ideas intelligible, whether specific or general. Thus, should they admit that mind was coeval with body, yet till...
หน้า 45 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
หน้า 408 - ... and universal genius. Where matter so abounded, words followed of course, and those exquisite in every kind, as the ideas for which they stood. And hence it followed, there was not a subject to be found, which could not with propriety be expressed in Greek.