Proceedings - Philological Society, London, Том 4

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Сторінка 116 - His feeling wordes her feeble sence much pleased, And softly sunck into her molten hart: Hart, that is inly hurt, is greatly eased With hope of thing that may allegge his smart; For pleasing wordes are like to magick art, That doth the charmed snake in slomber lay : Such...
Сторінка 209 - Vice-President, in the Chair. THE following gentlemen were elected Members of the Society :— Prof. F. Fuller, MA, and Capt. EH White. The SECRETARY read a communication from Sir John Conroy, Bart., " On a Simple Form of Heliostat.
Сторінка 196 - ... in following ages ? The Latin, though then less celebrated, and confined to more narrow limits, has, in some measure, outlived the Greek, and is now more generally understood by men of letters. Let the French, therefore, triumph in the present diffusion of their tongue. Our solid and increasing establishments in America, where we need less dread the inundations of barbarians, promise a superior stability and duration to the English language.
Сторінка 195 - The fame of our writers, is usually confined to these two islands, and it is hard it should be limited in time, as much as place, by the perpetual variations of our speech.
Сторінка 83 - Pampanga, or Bisaya, nor any means of supplying the place of one, except the employment of pronouns and particles. Mariner makes a similar remark respecting the Tonga language ; and we may venture to affirm that there is not such a thing as a true verb substantive in any one member of the great Polynesian family.
Сторінка 167 - Drake, to Syria, to obtain squeeze-impressions and photographs of all these and any other similar inscriptions. His report will be looked for with great interest. In the last number of the Journal of the American Oriental Society, it is stated that Mr. Palmer has already found in a Syrian MS. lying in the University of Cambridge, other copies of these Hamath inscriptions. They are said to be imperfect. We do not learn, however, that the Syrian MS. has been translated, or that any theory of interpretation...
Сторінка 245 - Gerbert's familiarity with the Arcerian, suggested by the examination of his personal history, the Geometry itself furnishes evidence almost amounting to demonstration, that its author was unacquainted with it. The most important, and, in an historical point of view, the most interesting proposition of the mathematical part of the manuscript, so far as its contents are known, is the general formula for the area of any triangle in terms of its sides* (p.
Сторінка 191 - Napoleon asked him once, with cold fixed look, " Art thou then in the world of letters known?" And meeting his imperial look with eye As little wont to turn away before The face of man, the Hollander replied, " At least I have done that whereby I have There to be known deserved.
Сторінка 170 - ... gracious permission of the ego to let non-ego do as he likes. Correlatively, the suppression of reference to his own will, and the adoption of a simply predictive form on the part of the ego, is likely to be the mode with which, when the person is changed, he will associate the idea .of another having his own way; while the suppression of reference to the will of the non-ego is likely to infer restraint produced by the predominant will of the ego. Occasionally, the will of the non-ego is referred...
Сторінка 220 - Indeed the writer believes that a verb-substantive, such as is commonly conceived, vivifying all connected speech, and binding together the terms of every logical proposition, is much upon a footing with the phlogiston of the chemists of the last generation, regarded as a necessary pabulum of combustion, that is to say, vox et prasterea nihil.

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