On the Study of Words: Five Lectures Addressed to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training School, Winchester |
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... nearly the same , only drawn from the Greek . And not less , where a perversion of the moral sense has found place , words preserve oftentimes a record of this perversion . We have a signal example of this , even as it is a notable ...
... nearly the same , only drawn from the Greek . And not less , where a perversion of the moral sense has found place , words preserve oftentimes a record of this perversion . We have a signal example of this , even as it is a notable ...
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... nearly wholly wanting in the dialect of the savage whereby to impart to him heavenly truths , or indeed even the nobler emotions of the human heart . Southey in his History of Brazil quotes the words of an early Jesuit missionary among ...
... nearly wholly wanting in the dialect of the savage whereby to impart to him heavenly truths , or indeed even the nobler emotions of the human heart . Southey in his History of Brazil quotes the words of an early Jesuit missionary among ...
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... nearly as they are . Too many have had a hand in it , and in causing it to arrive at its present shape , it is too entirely the work of the whole nation , the result of the united contributions of all , E to allow any successful ...
... nearly as they are . Too many have had a hand in it , and in causing it to arrive at its present shape , it is too entirely the work of the whole nation , the result of the united contributions of all , E to allow any successful ...
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... nearly latent now , they are capable of receiving at the hands of wise and discreet masters of the tongue . Synonyms are words of like significance in the main , but with a certain unlikeness as well . So soon as the term is defined ...
... nearly latent now , they are capable of receiving at the hands of wise and discreet masters of the tongue . Synonyms are words of like significance in the main , but with a certain unlikeness as well . So soon as the term is defined ...
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... nearly as distant from " gambolling " as hell is from heaven . Nor would it be hard , in each other of the words which I have instanced , nor in others of like kind which no doubt might be added to them , to trace a distinction which ...
... nearly as distant from " gambolling " as hell is from heaven . Nor would it be hard , in each other of the words which I have instanced , nor in others of like kind which no doubt might be added to them , to trace a distinction which ...
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able according affirm applied bear become believe bring called Christian Church claim closely common considered continually course derived distinction divine doubt Edition employed England English etymology evil example exist explanation express eyes fact faith feeling French gave give given Greek ground hand heart honour human important instance instruction invention Italy kind knowledge land language Latin learning lectures less light lively Lord manner matter meaning merely mind moral natural nearly never Norman object observe once originally ourselves pass past period person plainly possess present properly received record regard relation religion Saxon Scripture seek sense side signify single speak spelling spirit sure synonyms things thought tion tongue trace tribes true truth turn witness word writer
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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 v - A language will often be wiser, not merely than the vulgar, but even than the wisest of those who speak it. Being like amber in its efficacy to circulate the electric spirit of truth, it is also like amber in embalming and preserving the relics of ancient wisdom, although one is not seldom puzzled to decipher its contents.
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...