 | 1862 - 822 pages
...exceedingly arbitrary, and depends on the whim of individuals. But in truth " we might as well think of changing the laws which control the circulation...inventing new words according to our own pleasure." Is there then no growth of language? In one sense, yes. And this growth comprises two processes, which... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1855 - 846 pages
...the invention of words for the naming of each object is the work of the mind." — Lectures, p. 30. which control the circulation of our blood, or of...inventing new words according to our own pleasure."* Again, speaking of the individual : " He can do nothing by himself, and the first impulse to a new... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1861 - 422 pages
...history; language, or any other production of nature, admits only of growth. Let us consider, first, that although there is a continuous change in language,...to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, * Trench, English Past and Present, p. 114 ; Marsh, p. 397. or inventing new words according to our... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1861 - 420 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as cf altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure. As man is the lord of nature only if he knows her laws and submits to them, the poet and the philosopher... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 452 pages
...history; language, or any other production of nature, admits only of growth. Let us consider, first, that although there is a continuous change in language,...inventing new words according to our own pleasure. As man is the lord of nature only if he knows her laws and submits to them, the poet and the philosopher... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 454 pages
...history ; language, or any other production of nature, admits only of growth. Let us consider, first, that although there is a continuous change in language,...inventing new words according to our own pleasure. As man is the lord of nature only if he knows her laws and submits to them, the poet and the philosopher... | |
 | 1862 - 934 pages
...College, Oxford, etc. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts. 1861. pp. 399. might as well think of changing the laws which control the circulation...inventing new words according to our own pleasure. Language is a growth, and has a continuous life, like a tree. Or more exactly, it is a deposit, and... | |
 | 1862 - 920 pages
...College, Oxford, etc. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts. 1861. pp. 399. might as well think of changing the laws which control the circulation...inventing new words according to our own pleasure. Language is af/rowth, and has a continuous life, like a tree. Or more exactly, it is a deposit, and... | |
 | 1862 - 1092 pages
...exceedingly arhitrary, and depends on the whim of individuals. Bat in truth " we might as well think of changing the laws which control the circulation...laws of speech, or inventing new words according to oar own pleasure." Is there then no growth of language? In one sense, yes. And this growth comprises... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1862 - 512 pages
...prevent it. We might as well thinfe of changing the laws which control the circulation of our Hood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering...of speech or inventing new words according to our pleasure. As man is the lord of nature only if he knows her laws and submits to them, £so] the poet... | |
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We might think as well of changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure. 
