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... Barbarous languages are not defici- ent , —but most deficient of all in fyn- tax . - Reasons for this . - All langua- ges Spoken by Barbarous nations not barbarous , 12 Ch . Pag . 3. Greater variety both of found The CONTENTS .
... Barbarous languages are not defici- ent , —but most deficient of all in fyn- tax . - Reasons for this . - All langua- ges Spoken by Barbarous nations not barbarous , 12 Ch . Pag . 3. Greater variety both of found The CONTENTS .
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... most perfect language the author knows . - Its refemblance to the Sanferit language of India . - From the Greek language the author has formed his notion of what is most per- fect in language . - Of the found of the Greek language ...
... most perfect language the author knows . - Its refemblance to the Sanferit language of India . - From the Greek language the author has formed his notion of what is most per- fect in language . - Of the found of the Greek language ...
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... most frequently , fuch as Con- junctions and Prepofitions . - The ter- minations of the Greek words most various and most pleasant to the ear . -None of their words terminate in mute confonants . - Difference of fpi- its in Greek . This ...
... most frequently , fuch as Con- junctions and Prepofitions . - The ter- minations of the Greek words most various and most pleasant to the ear . -None of their words terminate in mute confonants . - Difference of fpi- its in Greek . This ...
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... most wonderful in this respect . Of the noun , and the various things denoted by its declen- fion . - Of the verb , and the ftill great- er variety of expreffion by it . - Of the words in Greek formed from the verb . - The Greek verb ...
... most wonderful in this respect . Of the noun , and the various things denoted by its declen- fion . - Of the verb , and the ftill great- er variety of expreffion by it . - Of the words in Greek formed from the verb . - The Greek verb ...
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... most difficult of the two . - Two things required to make fine compofi- tion , that it should be pleafant , and that it fhould be beautiful - Thefe must depend upon the elements of speech properly joined together . - Of the let- ters ...
... most difficult of the two . - Two things required to make fine compofi- tion , that it should be pleafant , and that it fhould be beautiful - Thefe must depend upon the elements of speech properly joined together . - Of the let- ters ...
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accents acute accent Æneid alfo alſo antient Barbarous languages beauty befides betwixt cafes called Chap Cicero compofition confifting defect Demofthenes dialect diftinction diftinguiſhed diphthongs divifion Engliſh expreffed expreffion faid fame fcience fecond fenfe fentence fhall fhort fhould fignifying fingle words firft firſt flexion fome words fometimes fpeak fpeech French French language ftile ftill fubject fuch fure fyftem fyllables greater greateſt Greek language guage Halicarnaffian Herodotus himſelf Homer impoffible Latin language learned lefs likewife loft melody moft mood moſt mufic muft muſic muſt mute confonants nouns obferved otherwife paffive participle particularly paſt perfect language perfon perfuaded philofophical pleaſant pleaſe poffible pofition praiſe prefent profe pronounce pronunciation publiſhed reaſon refpect rhythm riety ſaid Sanferit ſay ſhort ſhown ſome ſpeak ſpoken ſtate tenfes termination thefe ther theſe things thofe thoſe tion tones uſe verb verfe vowels wonderful
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Page 362 - And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 362 - I give unto you, That ye love one another •, as I have loved you, that ye alfo love one another. 3$ By this fhall all men know that ye are my difciples, if ye have love one to another.
Page 355 - ... virtue, nor any religion •without the love of God. We muft therefore perceive beauty both in God and in Virtue. Then he'proceeds to fhew, that body has in itfelf no beauty, but that the beauty we admire in it is all from mind : So that what we admire in the works of art is the genius of the artift...
Page 63 - ... out of the work and alter quite the colour of the ftile, fuch as exclamation, much ufed even by Cicero, and fuch as epithets which are the diftinguifhing characteriftic of the poetic ftile, but of which the ftile of Demofthenes is almoft entirely free, (for I have read whole orations of his, where there is not a fingle epithet), the figures he ufes being fuch as efcape the attention of the unlearned, and, though the learned perceive that they give an unufual caft to the ftile, yet they do not...
Page 116 - Englifh a fubjunctive mood, marked by the termination ; but this termination was no other than the termination of the firft perfon of the prefent of the indicative, without any variation of the other perfons. Thus Milton fays, if I love, if thou love, if he love. But this mood is, fince his time, almoft quite out of fafhion; tho' we have fo little variation in our verbs, that I think not the leaft mould be loft.
Page 238 - The practice of reciting the orations of antient authors I would recommend particularly to thofe who would form themfelves to be public fpeakers. I have heard that the Marquis of Wharton formed his fon, the Duke, to be one of the greateft, and at the fame time one of the readieft fpeakers that ever was in England, by making him get by heart whole orations of Demofthenes, and repeat them with all the graces of action and pronunciation.
Page 438 - I have faid, either by blind chance pr fatal aeceflity. bis temple in Babylon, attended by a woman. confecrated to his fervice, he fays he does not believe, though he was told the fame ftory by the Egyptian priefts of their Jupiter in Thebes * ; And it is evident, that neither did he .believe what the fame Egyptian priefts told him, of two wolves condu&ing a blind-folded prieft to a temple of Cefes, at the diftance of twenty ftadia, and bringing him back again...
Page 159 - I have pbferved elfewhere, is different from the oratorial *. But writing in the plaineft manner, and upon the moft common fubjects, we may avoid a dull and tirefoine uniformity. But above all, whatever be the fubject upon which we write, we fhould take care to avoid the affectation of giving numbers to our profe, which was one of the greateft beauties of antient compofition, but of which our language, and I believe every other modern language, is abfolutely incapable, having neither melody nor rhythm....
Page 415 - Perfians, but the hiftory of the Lydians, Aflyrians, Medes, Scythians, and Egyptians ; and, indeed, the whole hiftory of the world then known; fo that as to the variety of the matter he far exceeds Homer, and yet with all that variety the unity of the work is Mill preferved.
Page 277 - Herennium, by feme critics afcribed to one Cornificius, but undoubtedly the work of an antient rhetorician, treats more fully of it, and is at a great deal of pains to make us underftand wherein the art confiftsf. Both Cicero and he agree in this, that it was by a reference to fenfible objects that the memory both of things and of words was preferved. They therefore imagined to themfelves certain places or loci as they called them, fuch as houfes or porticos ; and in thefe they conceived certain...