 | 1862 - 926 pages
...and Roberts. 1861. pp. 399. might as well think of changing the laws which control the circulation c: our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws r speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure. Langnas: is a growth, and has a continuous... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1863 - 288 pages
...the invention of words for the naming of each object is the work of the mind." — Lectures, p. 30. which control the circulation of our blood, or of...the^ laws of speech, or inventing new words according I-/ to our own pleasure."* Again, speaking of the individual : " He can do nothing by himself, and... | |
 | John Laws Milton - 1864 - 668 pages
...embryo, sprang up in the wilds of Asia, and the havoc we work in it is none of our choosing. " Though there is a continuous change in language it is not...inventing new words according to our own pleasure.* As man is the lord of Nature only if he knows her laws and submits to them, the poet and philosopher... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 686 pages
...allows us to see not only his opinion, but the reasons on which lie founds it. After saying (p. 47) that, " although there is a continuous change in language,...inventing new words according to our own pleasure," — he goes on to cite cases in which two famous Emperors, Tiberius of Rome, and Sigismund of Germany,... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1866 - 506 pages
...consider, first, that although there is a continuous change in language, it is not in the power of any man either to produce or to prevent it. We might think...inventing new words according to our own pleasure. As man is the lord of nature only if he knows her laws and submits to them, the poet and the philosopher... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1867 - 518 pages
...Professor Max Miiller, in his Lectures on the Science of Language first series, second lecture. S» ous change in language, it is not in the power of man...inventing new words according to our own pleasure." Then, in order to establish the truth of this opinion, he goes on to cite a couple of historical instances,... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1867 - 516 pages
...Professor Max Miiller, in his Lectures ou the Science of Language, first series, second lecture. 8• oua change in language, it is not in the power of man...inventing new words according to our own pleasure." Then, in order to establish the truth of this opinion, he goes on to cite a couple of historical instances,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1862 - 538 pages
...in language, it is not in the power of man either to produce or prevent it. We might as well think of changing the laws which control the circulation...of speech or inventing new words according to our pleasure. As man is the lord of nature only if he knows her laws and submits to them, FsoT the poet... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1869 - 548 pages
...Professor Max Miiller, in his Lectures on the Science of Language, first series, second lecture. oua change in language, it is not in the power of man...inventing new words according to our own pleasure." Then, in order to establish the truth of this opinion, he goes on to cite a couple of historical instances,... | |
 | 1875 - 1012 pages
...That it is not in the power of man (not men) either to produce or to prevent change in language : that we might think as well of changing the laws which...of speech, or inventing new words, according to our pleasure." In order to explain what I meant by " according to our pleasure," I quoted the well-known... | |
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We might think as well of changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure. 
