On the study of language: an exposition of 'Epea pteroenta, or, The diversions of Purley, by John Horne Tooke'. |
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abbreviations abstract adjective adverbs affirmative ancient Anglo Anglo-Saxon verb applied Aristotle Author Berkeley called Cassander cause CHAP Chaucer colour common complex term conjunction consequence corrupt denote Dictionary distinct Diversions of Purley doctrine Dutch edition etymologists etymology existence explain expression eyes formed formerly written French German Gothic Grammar grammarians Greek guage Hence Horne Tooke infra instance Italian JOHN HORNE TOOKE John Stoddart language Latin lative latter lifted Locke Locke's Lord Lowth manner meaning merely mind modern notion noun noun substantive objects old English operation origin past participle past tense perceive philosophers Philosophy of Language Piers Ploughman prefix preposition principles pronounced quod Saxon says sensations sense sensible qualities separate signification sith speech STOCK Stoddart stuck Study of Words subaudition substantive tense and past termination things thought tion Tooke's trow truth usage Whately writes
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Сторінка 21 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery...
Сторінка 87 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them, whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye ; for we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Сторінка 9 - The consideration, then, of ideas and words as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Сторінка 102 - I own myself able to abstract in one sense, as when I consider some particular parts or qualities separated from others, with which, though they are united in some object, yet it is possible they may really exist without them. But I deny that I can abstract one from another, or conceive separately those qualities which it is impossible should exist so separated ; or that I can frame a general notion by abstracting from particulars in the manner aforesaid.
Сторінка 101 - ... neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once? In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist, an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Сторінка 224 - But besides all that endless variety of ideas or objects of knowledge, there is likewise something which knows or perceives them, and exercises divers operations, as willing, imagining, remembering, about them. This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself.
Сторінка 100 - The use of words then being to stand as outward marks of our internal ideas and those ideas being taken from particular things, if every particular idea that we take in should have a distinct name, names must be endless.
Сторінка 103 - Now if we will annex a meaning to our words, and speak only of what we can conceive, I believe we shall acknowledge, that an idea, which considered in itself is particular, becomes general, by being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort.
Сторінка 103 - ... reading and discoursing, names being for the most part used as letters are in Algebra, in which, though a particular quantity be marked by each letter, yet to proceed...
Сторінка 224 - Now the sum of all that is merely OBJECTIVE, we will henceforth call NATURE, confining the term to its passive and material sense, as comprising all the phenomena by which its existence is made known to us.