The Study of WordsH. W. Bell, 1904 - 320 páginas |
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affirm bear beautiful birth called century Christ Christian Church Cicero classical common connexion derived Dictionary distinction divine early employed England English English Language etymology example existence explanation express fact faith false feeling French German given Greek language Greek word guage heathen honour human imagination instance instructive invented Italian Jeremy Taylor labour language langue Latin learned lectures legends less Lord manner matter Max Müller meaning merely mind modern moral nation nature never oftentimes once originally Orlando Furioso ourselves passion Paulicians pennalism person Philology phonetic Piers Plowman poetry popular possess present Prester John RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Roman Saxon scholar Scripture sense signify Spanish speak speech spelling spirit Sprache stock dove Study of Words synonyms Tertullian things thought tion tongue trace tribes trivium true truth utter verb W. D. Whitney writers
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Página 67 - 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.
Página 28 - Or, for the laurel, he may gain a scorn; For a good poet's made, as well as born. And such wert thou! Look how the father's face Lives in his issue, even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well turned, and true filed lines; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.
Página 14 - ... (and in this differing from those which have produced in various people various arts of life), which could not remain dormant in him, for man could be only man through its exercise ; which therefore did rapidly bud and blossom out from within him at every solicitation from the world without, or from his fellow-man; as each object to be named appeared before his eyes, each relation of things to one another arose before his mind. It was not merely the possible, but the necessary, emanation of the...
Página 14 - 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.
Página 26 - WAS this the face that launched a thousand ships And burned the topless towers of Ilium?
Página 233 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Página 170 - Every new term expressing a fact, or a difference, not precisely and adequately expressed by any other word in the same language, is a new organ of thought for the mind that has learned it.
Página 91 - The Church fixed itself first in the seats and centres of intelligence, in the towns and cities of the Roman Empire ; in them its earliest triumphs were won ; while, long after these had accepted the truth, heathen superstitions and idolatries lingered on in the obscure hamlets and villages ; so that
Página 222 - A language will often be wiser, not merely than the vulgar, but even than the wisest of those who speak it. Being like amber in its efficacy to circulate the electric spirit of truth, it is also like amber in embalming and preserving the relics of ancient wisdom, although one is not seldom puzzled to decipher its contents.
Página 116 - ... as born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those that own his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself: another we call ' mercurial,' or light-hearted, as those born under the planet Mercury were accounted to be.