Hermes, Or, A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Universal Grammar

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J. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1771 - 442 หน้า
 

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หน้า 409 - to be a Scholar, as a Gamefter, or many other Characters equally illiberal and low. The fame application, the fame quantity of habit will fit us for one, as completely as for the other. And as to thofe who tell us, with an air of feeming wifdom, that
หน้า 399 - GOLDEN PERIOD, as a Providential Event in honour of human Nature, to ihew to what perfection the Species might afcend (g}. Now (g) If we except Homer, Hefiod, and the Lyric Poets, we hear of few Grecian Writers before the expedition of Xerxes. After that Monarch had been defeated, and the dread of the
หน้า 281 - itfelf immediately lucrative or not, the Nerves of Reafon are braced by the mere Employ, and we become abler Actors in the Drama of Life, whether our Part be of the bufier, or of the fedater kind. U 4. PERHAPS Ch. V. PERHAPS too there is a Pleafure even in 'Science
หน้า 406 - to be teachers ; a train of Dialogue and truly polite Addrefs, in which, as in a Mirrour, we behold human Life, adorned in all its colours of Sentiment and Manners. AND yet though thefe differ in this manner from the Stagirite, how different are they likewife in character from each other ? Plato, copious,
หน้า 285 - commodated to all Places and Times; " which neither depends on the will of " others, nor on the affluence of external " Fortune; that it is a Good, which de*' cays not with decaying Appetites, but *' often rifes in vigour, when thofe are no " more (d}.
หน้า 256 - Philofophers, or even to cite and tranflate him (except in trite and obvious Sentences) without accurately knowing the Greek Tongue in general ; the nice differences of many Words apparently fynonymous ; the peculiar Stile of the Author whom he prefumes to handle ; the new coined Words, and new Significations given to old
หน้า 405 - or Sappho ; for the rural Lays of a Theocritus or Bion ; and for the fublime Conceptions of a Sophocles or Homer. The fame in Profe. Here Ifocrates was enabled to difplay his Art, in all the accuracy of Periods, and the nice counterpoife of Diction. Here
หน้า 100 - from the prefent Day, and thus gain the Idea of days and nights in futurity. After the fame manner, by attending to the periodical returns of New and Full Moons; of Springs, Summers, Autumns and Winters, all of which in Time paft I find never to have failed, I anticipate a like
หน้า 391 - its genial influence. If at any time civil Difcords arofe among them (and arife there did innumerable) the conteft was never about the Form of their Government ; (for this was an object, of which the Combatants had no conception; ) it was all from the poor
หน้า 246 - the reft, ihould have their works filled with Particles of all kinds, and with Conjunctions in particular ; while in the modern polite works, as well of ourfelves as of our neighbours, fcarce fuch a Word as a Particle, or Conjunction is to be found. Is it, that where there is

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