Lectures on the English LanguageC. Scribner, 1860 - 697 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 37
... language are neither arbitrary or conventional on the one hand , nor accidental on the other , but are natural and necessary products of the organization , faculties , and condition of man . Nay , some philologists maintain that the ...
... language are neither arbitrary or conventional on the one hand , nor accidental on the other , but are natural and necessary products of the organization , faculties , and condition of man . Nay , some philologists maintain that the ...
الصفحة 40
... language not as an organ , but as an implement . * * It is wonderful to what extent purely conventional articulate symbols may be made to supply the place of a more natural language , and to serve as a means of very varied communication ...
... language not as an organ , but as an implement . * * It is wonderful to what extent purely conventional articulate symbols may be made to supply the place of a more natural language , and to serve as a means of very varied communication ...
الصفحة 44
... language has no orthography , and is , philologically speaking , an unwritten tongue . It is therefore subject to all the uncertainty and vacillation of other languages , which exist only in the mouth of the people ; nor is there any ...
... language has no orthography , and is , philologically speaking , an unwritten tongue . It is therefore subject to all the uncertainty and vacillation of other languages , which exist only in the mouth of the people ; nor is there any ...
الصفحة 52
... languages . In philology thus considered , the study of languages is a means to the end specified in the definition just given . In linguistics , on the other hand , language itself , as one of the great characteristics of humanity , is ...
... languages . In philology thus considered , the study of languages is a means to the end specified in the definition just given . In linguistics , on the other hand , language itself , as one of the great characteristics of humanity , is ...
الصفحة 62
... lexicograph- ers to trace English words , through the languages I have named , back to still older dialects , and to detect affinities to words belonging to the vocabularies of languages not of the 62 EXTRAVAGANCE OF ETYMOLOGISTS .
... lexicograph- ers to trace English words , through the languages I have named , back to still older dialects , and to detect affinities to words belonging to the vocabularies of languages not of the 62 EXTRAVAGANCE OF ETYMOLOGISTS .
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الصفحة 356 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
الصفحة 165 - But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
الصفحة 570 - My life is like the prints which feet Have left on Tampa's desert strand; Soon as the rising tide shall beat, All trace will vanish from the sand; Yet, as if grieving to efface All vestige of the human race, On that lone shore loud moans the sea — But none, alas! shall mourn for me!
الصفحة 66 - Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come; but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
الصفحة 628 - Oxford. 13. The directors in each company to be the Deans of Westminster and Chester for that place, and the king's professors in the Hebrew or Greek in either university. 14. These translations to be used when they agree better with the text than the Bishops' Bible: Tindale's, Matthew's, Coverdale's, Whitchurch's, Geneva.
الصفحة 629 - Truly, good Christian Reader, we never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one...
الصفحة 629 - ... but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against ; that hath been our endeavour, that our mark.
الصفحة 130 - ... rising from her reeking hide; a walleyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was poking his spectral head out of a window, with the rain dripping on it from the eaves; an unhappy cur, chained to a doghouse hard by, uttered something every now and then, between a bark and a yelp ; a drab of a...
الصفحة 161 - When he wrote for publication, he did his sentences out of English into Johnsonese. His, letters from the Hebrides to Mrs. Thrale are the original of that work of which the Journey to the Hebrides is the translation, and it is amusing to compare the two versions. ' When we were taken up stairs,' says he in one of his letters, 'a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which one of us was to lie.
الصفحة 447 - It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.