Essays chiefly on the science of language with index to vols 3 and 4Scribner, Armstrong, 1876 |
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... centuries , a res publica , a commonwealth , in the best sense of the word . Oxford and Cambridge have supplied what England expected or demanded , and as English parents did not send their sons to learn Chinese or to study Cornish ...
... centuries , a res publica , a commonwealth , in the best sense of the word . Oxford and Cambridge have supplied what England expected or demanded , and as English parents did not send their sons to learn Chinese or to study Cornish ...
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... centuries . But looking back to the earlier history of the Eng- lish universities , I believe it is a mistake to suppose that Oxford , one of the most celebrated universities during the Middle Ages and in the modern history of Europe ...
... centuries . But looking back to the earlier history of the Eng- lish universities , I believe it is a mistake to suppose that Oxford , one of the most celebrated universities during the Middle Ages and in the modern history of Europe ...
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... century has inherited the intellectual wealth of former centu- ries , and with it the duty , not only to preserve it or to dole it out in schools and universities , but to in- crease it far beyond the limits which it has reached at ...
... century has inherited the intellectual wealth of former centu- ries , and with it the duty , not only to preserve it or to dole it out in schools and universities , but to in- crease it far beyond the limits which it has reached at ...
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... century later ( 1636 ) we find Arch- bishop Laud , whose attention had been attracted by Eastern questions , full of anxiety to resuscitate the study of Arabic at Oxford , partly by collecting Arabic MSS . in the East and depositing ...
... century later ( 1636 ) we find Arch- bishop Laud , whose attention had been attracted by Eastern questions , full of anxiety to resuscitate the study of Arabic at Oxford , partly by collecting Arabic MSS . in the East and depositing ...
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... century , and Oxford would probably have remained much longer without its professorial chair of the ancient national language of England , which was founded by Rawlinson , but was not inaugurated before the end of the last century ...
... century , and Oxford would probably have remained much longer without its professorial chair of the ancient national language of England , which was founded by Rawlinson , but was not inaugurated before the end of the last century ...
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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.