Fraser's Magazine, Volume 88Longmans, Green, and Company, 1873 |
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... tion , there remain in the end certain simple elements of human speech phonetic cells - commonly called roots . In place , therefore , of the old question of the origin of langu- age , we have here , too , to deal with the new question ...
... tion , there remain in the end certain simple elements of human speech phonetic cells - commonly called roots . In place , therefore , of the old question of the origin of langu- age , we have here , too , to deal with the new question ...
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... tion , a very good word , as expressing the act of dissolving sensuous intui- tions into their constituent parts , divesting each part of its momentary and purely intuitional character , and thus imparting to it that general capacity ...
... tion , a very good word , as expressing the act of dissolving sensuous intui- tions into their constituent parts , divesting each part of its momentary and purely intuitional character , and thus imparting to it that general capacity ...
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... tion is , that the invention of language involves the previous existence of concepts , because we can only feel impelled to express what already exists in our mind . This objection , however , has been met by showing that in the usual ...
... tion is , that the invention of language involves the previous existence of concepts , because we can only feel impelled to express what already exists in our mind . This objection , however , has been met by showing that in the usual ...
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... tion of a lower animal into man is conceivable , considering that the very opposite , too , viz . , the non - transition of any lower animal into man is equally conceivable , and , in addition to this , at least as far as our experience ...
... tion of a lower animal into man is conceivable , considering that the very opposite , too , viz . , the non - transition of any lower animal into man is equally conceivable , and , in addition to this , at least as far as our experience ...
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... tion and their disease . ' He saw the habitual condition of this mass of humanity its uniform mean level , the absence of anything more civilising than a grinding organ to raise the ideas beyond the daily bread and beer , the utter want ...
... tion and their disease . ' He saw the habitual condition of this mass of humanity its uniform mean level , the absence of anything more civilising than a grinding organ to raise the ideas beyond the daily bread and beer , the utter want ...
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Page 231 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 629 - ... having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him...
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Page 491 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
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Page 85 - The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties or the moral coercion of public opinion.
Page 491 - The labour of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
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Page 667 - I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent; the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten by their first "conviction of sin.
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