The Monthly Review, Or, Literary JournalR. Griffiths, 1798 - Books |
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... language of science should not differ from the language of common sense ; yet would the dispute be verbal ; -for were we to demand a definition of the language of common sense , it would be defined such as really not to be the language ...
... language of science should not differ from the language of common sense ; yet would the dispute be verbal ; -for were we to demand a definition of the language of common sense , it would be defined such as really not to be the language ...
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... language is a barbarous mixture of the Turkish with Persian and Arabic , not unlike that " Babylonish dialect " of our Puritans , which Butler compares to " fustian cut on sattin . " . This will best be demonstrated by an example ...
... language is a barbarous mixture of the Turkish with Persian and Arabic , not unlike that " Babylonish dialect " of our Puritans , which Butler compares to " fustian cut on sattin . " . This will best be demonstrated by an example ...
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... language , by freeing it from the inde- terminate signification given to many Greek words by a Latin trans- lation , and ( as far as the idiom will permit ) to give the Greek verbs a fixed sense . ' In prosecution of this purpose , the ...
... language , by freeing it from the inde- terminate signification given to many Greek words by a Latin trans- lation , and ( as far as the idiom will permit ) to give the Greek verbs a fixed sense . ' In prosecution of this purpose , the ...
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