 | Thomas Brown - 1835 - 574 pages
...any words but his own. " The assignation of particular names, to denote particular objects, that IB, the institution of nouns substantive, would probably...men, would naturally begin to form that language by whicti they would endeavour to make their mutual wants intelligible to each other, by uttering certain... | |
 | Philological Society (Great Britain) - 1844 - 348 pages
...languages, appended to his work on the " Theory of Moral Sentiments." He observes that the assigning particular names to denote particular objects, that...the first steps towards the formation of language. The objects most familiar to two aborigines would have particular names given to them, as a cave, a... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1847 - 666 pages
...Origin of Languages, appears to me to be equally simple and satisfactory. " The assignation," says he, " of particular names, to denote particular objects ; that is, the institution of nouns substantive ; vould probably be one of the first steps towards the formation of language. The particular cave,... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1848 - 554 pages
...in a Dissertation on Languages, prefixed to his Theory of Moral Sentiments, says ; " The assignation of particular names to denote particular objects — that is, the institution of nouns substantial, would probably be one of the first steps towards the formation of language. The particular... | |
 | Thomas Brown, James Parkinson Boyle - 1849 - 370 pages
...maintained by Condillac and Adam Smith. The latter remarks that this antonomasia. or The assignation of particular names to denote particular objects, that is, the institution of nouns-substantive, would probably be one of the first steps towards the formation of language5im'/A,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1850 - 496 pages
...beginning of his Considerations concerning the First Formation of Languages : — "The assignation of particular names to denote particular objects,...naturally begin to form that language, by which they would endeavour to make their mutual wants intelligible to each other, by uttering certain sounds, whenever... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1853 - 616 pages
...COMPOUNDED LANGUAGES. CONSIDERATIONS COKCERHINQ THE FIRST FORMATION OF LANGUAGES, &o. THE assignation of particular names, to denote particular objects,...naturally begin to form that language by which they would endeavour to make their mutual wants intelligible to each other, by uttering certain sounds, whenever... | |
 | Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - 1853 - 622 pages
...COMPOUNDED LANGUAGES. CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE FIRST FORMATION OF LANGUAGES, &< THE assignation of particular names, to denote particular objects,...institution of nouns substantive, would, probably, bo one of the first steps towards the formation of language. Two savages, who had never been taught... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...Origin of Languages, appears to me to be equally simple and satisfactory. " The assignation," says he, " of particular names, to denote particular objects,...the first steps towards the formation of Language. The particular cave, whose covering sheltered the savage from the weather ; the particular tree, whose... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 pages
...Origin of Languages, appears to me to be equally simple and satisfactory. " The assignation," says he, " of particular names, to denote particular objects,...the first steps towards the formation of Language. The particular cave, whose covering sheltered the savage from the weather ; the particular tree, whose... | |
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of particular names to denote particular objects, that is, the institution of nouns substantive, would probably be one of the first steps towards the formation of language. Two savages who had never been taught to speak, but had been bred up remote from... 
