The Discovery of the Science of Languages: In which are Shown the Real Nature of the Parts of Speech : the Meanings which All Words Carry in Themselves, as Their Own Definitions ; and the Origin of Words, Letters, Figures, Etc. ; in Two Volumes, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 - 401 pages |
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... ideas . should have if they did . - 96-127 What sort of a language we What office words must fill with - 127-131 regard to the mind How many parts of speech the author discovers there are . Shown what grammarians are likely to think of ...
... ideas . should have if they did . - 96-127 What sort of a language we What office words must fill with - 127-131 regard to the mind How many parts of speech the author discovers there are . Shown what grammarians are likely to think of ...
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... idea of plurality was first named , nobody can imagine . In like manner every body knows that such endings as are , ere , ère , and ire are , in Latin , signs of what grammarians call the infinitive mood ; but why these endings are ...
... idea of plurality was first named , nobody can imagine . In like manner every body knows that such endings as are , ere , ère , and ire are , in Latin , signs of what grammarians call the infinitive mood ; but why these endings are ...
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... idea of what these three parts of speech imply , can with difficulty believe any body else to be ignorant of their real nature . Yet I can easily prove , and in such a manner as to bring my reasoning within the reach of the dullest ...
... idea of what these three parts of speech imply , can with difficulty believe any body else to be ignorant of their real nature . Yet I can easily prove , and in such a manner as to bring my reasoning within the reach of the dullest ...
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... ideas . Yet when we say " will is power , " we perceive this to be impossible , for will cannot be itself and power ... idea can be the same with any . other but itself , when its abstract name is affirmed 24 DISCOVERY OF THE Personal ...
... ideas . Yet when we say " will is power , " we perceive this to be impossible , for will cannot be itself and power ... idea can be the same with any . other but itself , when its abstract name is affirmed 24 DISCOVERY OF THE Personal ...
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... idea . Thus should any one say that parsimony is frugality , that gratitude is justice , that this or that action is or is not temperate ; however specious these and the like propositions may at first sight seem , yet when we come to ...
... idea . Thus should any one say that parsimony is frugality , that gratitude is justice , that this or that action is or is not temperate ; however specious these and the like propositions may at first sight seem , yet when we come to ...
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2d Edition adjective aimer allow alluded already analysed ancient Aristotle avoir body c'est Charles Stoddart class of words cloth composed Condillac considered contraction dative declensions discover discovery double possessive ellipsis Encyclopædia English language English word equal être expressed fourth degree French language French word gender and number genitive gone gram grammarians Greek Hence History hitherto Horne Tooke ic iv idea instance J. C. LOUDON j'ai John John's language Latin learned letter literal meaning manner meant mind nature never nominative nouns observation opinion participle past Paul the Apostle perceive perfect tense person singular philosophers plural number Port Royal positive degree preceded preposition present pronouns proposition qu'il qualify reader reddition referred remark rendu respecting signify soul speech substance named suppose tense Thou understood verb Vignette Titles whilst wholly Woodcuts words called written