On the Study of Words: Five Lectures Addressed to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training School, Winchester |
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... explanation , that language would then be an acci- dent of human nature ; and , this being the case , that we certainly should somewhere find tribes sunken so low as not to possess it , even as there is no human art or invention ...
... explanation , that language would then be an acci- dent of human nature ; and , this being the case , that we certainly should somewhere find tribes sunken so low as not to possess it , even as there is no human art or invention ...
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... explanation of the absence of the word is plain from a fact which the same writer records , that although inveterate askers , they never showed the slightest sense of obligation or of gratitude , when they obtained what they sought ...
... explanation of the absence of the word is plain from a fact which the same writer records , that although inveterate askers , they never showed the slightest sense of obligation or of gratitude , when they obtained what they sought ...
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... explanation of the fact that language should be thus instructive for us , that it should yield us so much , when we come to analyze and probe it ; and the more , the more deeply and accurately we do so . It is full of instruction ...
... explanation of the fact that language should be thus instructive for us , that it should yield us so much , when we come to analyze and probe it ; and the more , the more deeply and accurately we do so . It is full of instruction ...
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... explanation of the exist- ence of pain in the present economy of the world sure . * Sanderson , Sermons , 1671 , v . 2. p . 124. He instances the Latin " sacrament , " the Greek " . " mystery . " · ✓ -namely , that it is the ...
... explanation of the exist- ence of pain in the present economy of the world sure . * Sanderson , Sermons , 1671 , v . 2. p . 124. He instances the Latin " sacrament , " the Greek " . " mystery . " · ✓ -namely , that it is the ...
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... the other section of the nation . Here is the explanation of the assertion just now made - namely , that we might almost recon- struct our history , so far as it turned upon the Norman conquest , by an analysis of our present language.
... the other section of the nation . Here is the explanation of the assertion just now made - namely , that we might almost recon- struct our history , so far as it turned upon the Norman conquest , by an analysis of our present language.
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Page 7 - Till from the straw, the flail, the corn doth beat, Until the chaff be purged from the wheat, Yea, till the mill the grains in pieces tear, The richness of the flour will scarce appear. So, till men's persons great afflictions touch, If worth be found, their worth is not so much, Because, like wheat in straw, they have not yet That value which in threshing they may get.
Page 14 - 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 whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 46 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 22 - ... and mightier in every way is a language than any one of the works which may have been composed in it. For that work, great as it may be, is but the embodying of the mind of a single man, this of a nation. The Iliad is great, yet not so great in strength or power or beauty as the Greek language. Paradise Lost is a noble possession for a people to have inherited, but the English tongue is a nobler heritage yet.
Page 84 - No one now believes in astrology, that the planet under which a man may happen to be born will affect his temperament, will make him for life of a disposition grave or gay, lively or severe. Yet we seem to affirm as much in language, for we speak of one as 'jovial,
Page 61 - Thus ox, steer, cow are Saxon, but beef Norman; calf is Saxon, but veal Norman; sheep is Saxon, but mutton Norman; so it is severally with swine and pork, deer and venison, fowl and pullet.
Page 12 - ... to have invented it, just as he might have invented any of these, for himself ; and from rude imperfect beginnings, the inarticulate cries by which he expressed his natural wants, the sounds by which he sought to imitate the impression of natural objects upon...
Page 87 - LECTURE VI. ON THE DISTINCTION OF WORDS. IT is to the subject of synonyms and their distinction, with the advantages which may be derived from the study of these, that I propose to devote the present lecture. But what, it may be asked, do we mean, when, comparing certain words with one another, we affirm of them that they are synonyms...