Essentials of English for Schools, Colleges, and Private StudyS.C. Griggs, 1884 - 314 стор. |
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Сторінка viii
... , belongs to the rational . A language is spoken and written centuries before its usages are systematized , and it has never been observed that either individuals or nations normally start with science viii PREFACE .
... , belongs to the rational . A language is spoken and written centuries before its usages are systematized , and it has never been observed that either individuals or nations normally start with science viii PREFACE .
Сторінка x
... never open the lock with all their fumbling . ' Nor is it to be viewed in itself alone , but in its connections with cognate Aryan tongues - especially with German , Dutch , Danish , Icelandic , Romance . Classical illustrations may be ...
... never open the lock with all their fumbling . ' Nor is it to be viewed in itself alone , but in its connections with cognate Aryan tongues - especially with German , Dutch , Danish , Icelandic , Romance . Classical illustrations may be ...
Сторінка xi
... never to be forgotten is , that the mind , while it may shift its attention , can attend to but one thing at a time . The induction and classification of the noun , verb , etc. , constitute one operation ; the inflection of the in ...
... never to be forgotten is , that the mind , while it may shift its attention , can attend to but one thing at a time . The induction and classification of the noun , verb , etc. , constitute one operation ; the inflection of the in ...
Сторінка 40
... never uttered the sounds corresponding to them , while for other important sounds in use no symbol would be provided , and the strange signs would be adapted to new ends . By some physiological peculiarity , one people , it is well ...
... never uttered the sounds corresponding to them , while for other important sounds in use no symbol would be provided , and the strange signs would be adapted to new ends . By some physiological peculiarity , one people , it is well ...
Сторінка 52
... never consent to the latter . Severance between the spoken and the written language is involved in the nature of things , and is unavoidable except by such a continual change as would make the second as variable as the first . Its possi ...
... never consent to the latter . Severance between the spoken and the written language is involved in the nature of things , and is unavoidable except by such a continual change as would make the second as variable as the first . Its possi ...
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Сторінка 239 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Сторінка 204 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it, and upon...
Сторінка 267 - Sky, mountains, river, winds, lake, lightnings! ye, With night, and clouds, and thunder, and a soul To make these felt and feeling, well may be Things that have made me watchful; the far roll Of your departing voices, is the knoll Of what in me is sleepless, — if I rest. But where of ye, O tempests! is the goal? Are ye like those within the human breast? Or do ye find at length, like eagles, some high nest?
Сторінка 203 - Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream. — Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
Сторінка 231 - I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean, that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Сторінка 203 - On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers I always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.
Сторінка 261 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Сторінка 243 - That, chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Сторінка 270 - Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have...
Сторінка 298 - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.