Essays chiefly on the science of language with index to vols 3 and 4Scribner, Armstrong, 1876 |
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... become thoroughly acquainted with the general fea- tures of the whole family , it would have been impos- sible to discover and fully to appreciate what is pe- culiar to each of the members . Nor was it long before a reaction set in ...
... become thoroughly acquainted with the general fea- tures of the whole family , it would have been impos- sible to discover and fully to appreciate what is pe- culiar to each of the members . Nor was it long before a reaction set in ...
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... , a knowledge of Comparative Philology , as applied to Greek and Latin , had become indispensable . My chief object , therefore , as Professor of Com- parative Philology at Oxford , will be to treat the 18 INAUGURAL LECTURE .
... , a knowledge of Comparative Philology , as applied to Greek and Latin , had become indispensable . My chief object , therefore , as Professor of Com- parative Philology at Oxford , will be to treat the 18 INAUGURAL LECTURE .
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... become not only unscientific but mischievous . Again , nothing seems a more difficult lesson for an etymologist to learn than to say , I do not know . I do not know . Yet to my mind , noth- ing shows , for instance , the truly ...
... become not only unscientific but mischievous . Again , nothing seems a more difficult lesson for an etymologist to learn than to say , I do not know . I do not know . Yet to my mind , noth- ing shows , for instance , the truly ...
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... become τύπτειν , just as τύπτεσι became TÚTTELS . In the Doric dialect this throwing back of the final is omitted in the second person singular , where the Dorians may say auéλyes for aμéλyes ; and in the same Doric dialect the ...
... become τύπτειν , just as τύπτεσι became TÚTTELS . In the Doric dialect this throwing back of the final is omitted in the second person singular , where the Dorians may say auéλyes for aμéλyes ; and in the same Doric dialect the ...
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... becomes clear and intelligible by the light of Comparative Grammar ; anomalies vanish , excep- tions prove the rule , and we perceive more plainly every day how in language , as elsewhere , the conflict between the freedom claimed by ...
... becomes clear and intelligible by the light of Comparative Grammar ; anomalies vanish , excep- tions prove the rule , and we perceive more plainly every day how in language , as elsewhere , the conflict between the freedom claimed by ...
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Page 239 - WITH one consent let all the earth To God their cheerful voices raise ; Glad homage pay with awful mirth, And sing before Him songs of praise.
Page 238 - From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone...
Page 64 - 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. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Page 238 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 239 - Messiah's name. 4 Waft, waft, ye winds, His story; And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till, o'er our ransomed nature, The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Page 169 - Father, the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Page 239 - Him songs of praise. 2 Convinced that he is God alone, From Whom both we and all proceed ; We, whom He chooses for His own, The flock that He vouchsafes to feed. 3 O enter then His temple gate, Thence to His courts devoutly press; And still your grateful hymns repeat, And still His name with praises bless.
Page 446 - If the Science of Language has proved anything, it has proved that conceptual or discursive thought can be carried on in words only.
Page 173 - Oh, woe to youth, which must be destroyed by old age ! Woe to health, which must be destroyed by so many diseases ! Woe to this life, where a man remains so short a time! If there were no old age, no disease, no death ; if these could be made captive for ever ! " Then, betraying for the first time his intentions, the young prince said, " Let us turn back ; I must think how to accomplish deliverance.
Page 263 - ... because they act together with a compactness which is but little understood. Though belonging to various denominations of Christians, yet from the nature of their work, their isolated position, and their long experience, they have been led to think rather of the numerous questions on which they agree, than of those on which they differ, and they co-operate heartily together.