 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1899 - 638 pages
...close a resemblance. When they had occasion, therefore, to mention, or to point out to each obher many of the new objects, they would naturally utter the...the strongest and liveliest manner. And thus those jgorda^ which were originally the proper Jiamesrof "individuals, became the Common name of a muliitode.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1921 - 660 pages
...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 in" sensibly become the common name of a multitude."* " It is this application"... | |
 | Irene Tucker - 2000 - 336 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. (2.04) As Smith narrates the process... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2004 - 260 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 [1] This essay appeared in The Philological Miscellany in 1761. correspondent old one, of which the... | |
 | 1897 - 774 pages
...point out to each other many of the objects, they would naturally utter the name of the corresponding old one, of which the idea could not fail, at that...their memory in 'the strongest and liveliest manner. A child that is just learning to speak calls every person who comes to the house its papa or its mamma;... | |
 | 1832 - 954 pages
...same name by which he had been accustomed to express the similar objects 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." Remark here the examples given... | |
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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,... 
