On the Study of Words: Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training School, WinchesterMacmillan and Company, 1882 - 348 páginas |
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... nature , which is the region of God's wonders , or in the region of art , which is the region of man's wonders ; and nowhere truer than in this sphere and region of language , which is about to claim us now . Oftentimes here we walk up ...
... nature , which is the region of God's wonders , or in the region of art , which is the region of man's wonders ; and nowhere truer than in this sphere and region of language , which is about to claim us now . Oftentimes here we walk up ...
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... natural and things spiritual ; bringing those to illustrate and to give an abiding form and body to these . The image may have grown trite and ordinary now : perhaps through the help of this very word may have become so entirely the ...
... natural and things spiritual ; bringing those to illustrate and to give an abiding form and body to these . The image may have grown trite and ordinary now : perhaps through the help of this very word may have become so entirely the ...
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... nature has delivered it into our hands in such and so favourable cir- cumstances that we commonly complain of ourselves , if it be troublesome to us or slide unprofitable away . ' L Morality in Words . ' 9 that the good 8 LECT ...
... nature has delivered it into our hands in such and so favourable cir- cumstances that we commonly complain of ourselves , if it be troublesome to us or slide unprofitable away . ' L Morality in Words . ' 9 that the good 8 LECT ...
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... natural wants , the sounds by which he sought to imitate the impression of natural objects upon him , little by little to have arrived at that won- drous organ of thought and feeling , which his language is often to him now . Isaac ...
... natural wants , the sounds by which he sought to imitate the impression of natural objects upon him , little by little to have arrived at that won- drous organ of thought and feeling , which his language is often to him now . Isaac ...
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... nature ; and , this being the case , that we certainly should somewhere en- counter tribes sunken so low as not to possess it ; even as there is almost no human art or invention so obvious , and as it seems to us so indispensable , but ...
... nature ; and , this being the case , that we certainly should somewhere en- counter tribes sunken so low as not to possess it ; even as there is almost no human art or invention so obvious , and as it seems to us so indispensable , but ...
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Æschylus affirm altogether Antistrophic Aristotle bear beautiful better birth called century Christian Church Cicero claim common connexion curious derivation Dictionary distinction divine Edition embody employed England English etymology evil example existence explanation express fact faith Fcap feeling Fiji French French language German Greece Greek Greek language guage heathen honour human imagination instructive invented Isaac Taylor Italian Jeremy Taylor knowledge Labarum labour language langue Latin learned lecture legend less Lord manner matter Max Müller meaning merely metic Middle Ages mind modern moral Morea nation nature never Norman oftentimes once originally ourselves passion person poetry possess present Quintilian region Roman Saxon scholar Scripture sense signify sometimes speak spelling spirit Sprache synonyms Tertullian things thought tion tongue trace tribes trivium true truth Tusc utterance verb words writer
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Página 108 - 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!
Página 107 - 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 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.
Página 40 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Ilium?
Página 44 - 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 126 - Quem enim nos ineptum vocamus, is mihi videtur ab hoc nomen habere ductum, quod non sit aptus, idque in sermonis nostri consuetudine perlate patet. Nam qui aut tempus quid postulet non videt, aut plura loquitur, aut se ostentat, aut eorum, quibuscum est, yel dignitatis vel commodi rationem non habet, aut denique in aliquo genere aut inconcinnus aut multus est, is ineptus esse dicitur.
Página 63 - 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 57 - For till the bruising flails of God's corrections Have- thrashed out of us our vain affections; Till those corruptions which do misbecome us Are by thy sacred Spirit winnowed from us : Until from us the straw of worldly treasures, Till all the dusty chaff of empty pleasures, Yea, till His flail upon us He doth lay, To...