 All articulate sounds are produced by effort, by expenditure of muscular energy, in the lungs, throat, and mouth. This effort, like every other which man makes, he has an instinctive disposition to seek relief from, to avoid : we may call it laziness,...  An Introduction to Greek and Latin Etymology - Page 5by John Peile - 1872 - 454 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Dwight Whitney - Comparative linguistics - 1867 - 518 pages
...expenditure of muscular energy, in the lungs, throat, and mouth. This effort, like every other which man makes, he has an instinctive disposition to seek...the other, according to the circumstances of each separate case : it is laziness when it gives up more than it gains ; economy, when it gains more than... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Comparative linguistics - 1867 - 516 pages
...expenditure of muscular energy, in the lungs, throat, and mouth. This effort, like every other which man makes, he has an instinctive disposition to seek...the other, according to the circumstances of each separate case : it is laziness when it gives up more than it gains ; economy, when it gains more than... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Comparative linguistics - 1867 - 516 pages
...expenditure of muscular energy, in the lungs, throat, and mouth. This effort, like every other which man makes, he has an instinctive disposition to seek...laziness, or we may call it economy ; it is, in fact, cither the one or the other, according to the circumstances of each separate case : it is laziness... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Comparative linguistics - 1869 - 548 pages
...expenditure of muscular energy, in the lungs, throat, and mouth. This effort, like every other which man makes, he has an instinctive disposition to seek...relief from, to avoid : we may call it laziness, or \ve may call it economy ; it is, in fact, either the one or the other, according to the circumstances... | |
 | Richard Morris - English language - 1872 - 482 pages
...expenditure oi muscular energy, in the lungs, throat, and mouth. This effort, like every other which man makes, he has an instinctive disposition to seek...the other — according to the circumstances of each separate case ; it is laziness when it gives up more than it gains ; economy when it gains more than... | |
 | Richard Morris - English language - 1875 - 458 pages
...expenditure o: muscular energy, in the lungs, throat, and mouth. This effort, like every other which man makes, he has an instinctive disposition to seek...avoid ; we may call it laziness, or we may call it economy—it is in fact either the one or the other—according to the circumstances of each separate... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Comparative linguistics - 1876 - 354 pages
...expenditure of muscular energy, in the lunga, throat, and mouth. This effort, like every other which man makes, he has an instinctive disposition to seek...the other, according to the circumstances of each separate case : it is laziness when it gives up more than it gains ; economy, when it gains more than... | |
 | Thomas LeMarchant Douse - Foreign Language Study - 1876 - 256 pages
...expenditure of muscular energy in the lungs, throat, and mouth : and this effort, like every other which man makes, he has an instinctive disposition to seek relief from, to avoid" 2 . This tendency, or " instinctive disposition/' is as universal and continuous in its operation 1... | |
 | Thomas Le Marchant Douse - Indo-European languages - 1876 - 264 pages
...expenditure of muscular energy in the lungs, throat, and mouth : and this effort, like every other which man makes, he has an instinctive disposition to seek relief from, to avoid" 2 . This tendency, or " instinctive disposition," is as universal and continuous in its operation i... | |
 | Thomas Le Marchant Douse - 1876 - 260 pages
...expenditure of muscular energy in the lungs, throat, and mouth : and this effort, like every other which man makes, he has an instinctive disposition to seek relief from, to avoid"2. This tendency, or " instinctive disposition," is as universal and continuous in its operation... | |
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