On the Study of Words: Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils of the Diocesan Training-school, WinchesterW.J. Widdleton, 1863 - Всего страниц: 248 |
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Стр. 77 - Then they that gladly received his word were baptized ; and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls ; and they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Стр. 20 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Стр. 161 - ... princely affairs, nor in regard of my continual service ; which is the cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient...
Стр. 78 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Стр. 20 - Yet this must not be taken to affirm that man started at the first furnished with a full-formed vocabulary of words, and as it were with his first dictionary and first grammar readymade to his hands. He did not thus begin the world with names, but with the power of naming ; for man is not a mere speaking machine ; God did not teach him words, as one of us teaches a parrot, from without ; but gave him a capacity, and then evoked the capacity which he gave.
Стр. 39 - To thresh the husk of this our flesh away, And leave the soul uncovered ; nay, yet more, Till God shall make our very spirit poor, We shall not up to highest wealth aspire ; But then we shall ; and that is my desire.
Стр. 38 - ... threshings, that is, of the inner spiritual man, without which there could be no fitting him for the heavenly garner. Now, in proof of my assertion that a single word is often a concentrated poem, a little grain of pure gold capable of being beaten out into a broad extent of gold-leaf, I will quote, in reference to this very word
Стр. 37 - Homer," some one has called, with a little exaggeration, the beautiful but anonymous ballad poetry of Spain. One may be permitted, perhaps, to push the exaggeration a little further in the same direction, and to apply the same language not merely to a ballad but to a word. For poetry, which is passion and imagination embodying themselves in words, does not necessarily demand a combination of words for this ; of this passion and imagination a single word may be the vehicle.
Стр. 157 - It was their beast of burden, and called first ' mobile vulgus,' but fell naturally into the contraction of one syllable, and ever since is become proper English.
Стр. 10 - I am sure, at least, that for many a young man his first discovery of the fact that words are living powers, are the vesture, yea, even the body, which thoughts weave for themselves, has been like the dropping of scales from his eyes, like the acquiring of another sense, or the introduction into a new world...