Essays chiefly on the science of language with index to vols 3 and 4Scribner, Armstrong, 1876 |
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... admitting an analogous dative of puro dhi , viz . , purod hy a i . The old dative dhai has been preserved to us in one form only , which for that reason is all the more valuable and im- portant , offering the key to the mysterious Greek ...
... admitting an analogous dative of puro dhi , viz . , purod hy a i . The old dative dhai has been preserved to us in one form only , which for that reason is all the more valuable and im- portant , offering the key to the mysterious Greek ...
Page 69
... admit of classification . Now this was a very great discovery , and it at once changed and raised the whole character of linguistic studies . Languages might have been , for all we know , the result of individual fancy or poetry ; words ...
... admit of classification . Now this was a very great discovery , and it at once changed and raised the whole character of linguistic studies . Languages might have been , for all we know , the result of individual fancy or poetry ; words ...
Page 80
... admit- ting such an historical progress from stage to stage , we should not commit an absurdity hardly less palpable than by trying to raise infusoria into horses or still further into men . [ What was an absurdity in 1855 does not seem ...
... admit- ting such an historical progress from stage to stage , we should not commit an absurdity hardly less palpable than by trying to raise infusoria into horses or still further into men . [ What was an absurdity in 1855 does not seem ...
Page 82
... admits himself in the second edition ( p . 143 ) , the evidence in support of this etymology may not be entirely ... admit of little doubt . Evidence of a similar kind may easily be found in any grammar , whether of an isolating ...
... admits himself in the second edition ( p . 143 ) , the evidence in support of this etymology may not be entirely ... admit of little doubt . Evidence of a similar kind may easily be found in any grammar , whether of an isolating ...
Page 84
... admit formative agencies different from juxtaposition and combination . But if we consider how in Sanskrit the Vedic instru- mental plural , asvebhis ( Lat . equobus ) , becomes before our very eyes asvais ( Lat . equis ) , and how such ...
... admit formative agencies different from juxtaposition and combination . But if we consider how in Sanskrit the Vedic instru- mental plural , asvebhis ( Lat . equobus ) , becomes before our very eyes asvais ( Lat . equis ) , and how such ...
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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.