 | Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - 1853 - 622 pages
...close a resemblance. When they had occasion, therefore, to mention, or to point out to each other, any of the new objects, they •would naturally utter...which were originally the proper names of individuals, would each of them insensibly become the common name of a multitude. A child that is just learning... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1853 - 616 pages
...close a resemblance. When they had occasion, therefore, to mention, or to point out to each other, any of the new objects, they would naturally utter the...which were originally the proper names of individuals, would each of them insensibly become the common name of a multitude. A child that is just learning... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - 1853 - 432 pages
...same name by which he had been accustomed to express the similar object he was first acquainted with. And thus, those words which were originally the proper names of individuals would each of them insensibly become the common name of a multitude." — Smith•s Origin of Language,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...same name by which he had been accustomed to express the similar object he was first acquainted with. And thus, those words, which were originally the proper names of individuals, would each of them insensibly become the common name of a multitude."i " It is this application," he... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - 1856 - 440 pages
...same name by which he had been accustomed to express the similar object he was first acquainted with. And thus, those words which were originally the proper names of individuals would each of them insensibly become the common name of a multitape." — Smith's Origin of Language.... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1859 - 752 pages
...close a resemblance. When they had occasion, therefore, to mention or to point out to each other any of the new objects, they would naturally utter the...the idea could not fail, at that instant, to present 1 See Origin* its Connoissances Hianaitut, H. p. 159. Cf. Elements, vol. U. part. ii. c. il. part i.... | |
 | Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1860 - 744 pages
...close a resem>lance. When they had occasion, therefore, to mention, or to point out to each other, any of the new objects, they would naturally utter the...manner. And thus, those words, which were originally the prc>er names of individuals, would each of them nsensibly become the common name of a multitude. A... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 584 pages
...close a resemblance. When they had occasion, therefore, to mention or to point out to each other any of the new objects, they would naturally utter the...which were originally the proper names of individuals, would each of them insensibly become the common name of a multitude. A child that is just learning... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 626 pages
...objects, they would naturally titter the name of the correspondent old one, of which the idea <:ould not fail, at that instant, to present itself to their...liveliest manner. And thus those words, which were origmally the proper names of individuals, would each of them insensibly become the common name of... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 584 pages
...close a resemblance. When they had occasion, therefore, to mention or to point out to each other any of the new objects, they would naturally utter the name of the correspondent old onef of which the idea could not fail, at that instant, to present itself to their memory in the strongest... | |
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It was impossible that those savages could behold the new objects without recollecting the old ones ; and the name of the old ones, to which the new bore so close a resemblance. When they had occasion, therefore, to mention, or to point out to each other,... 
