Chapters on LanguageLongmans, Green, 1873 - 276 pages |
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abstract adduced admit Æschylus Analogists analogy ancient animals Argot articulate Aryan asserted bird called catachresis CHAPTER Charma Chinese colour conception connection Cratylus derived Dict earliest elements English etymology existence explanation express external fact fancy French Gram Greek guage Hebrew Hebrew alphabet Heraclitus Heyse Hist human ideas ideography illustrate imitative origin imitative roots imitative sounds instance instinct intellect intelligence interjections intuition invented Kafir Langues Latin Lectures Lersch Les Misérables Max Müller means metaphors mind natural sounds notion object observed once onomatopoeia origin of language perception philological philosophers phonetic Pictet Plato Ponceau Pott primitive principle probable produced Professor Müller Psammetichus quoted races reason representation resemblance Sanskrit savage says Science sensation sense signs similar soul speech Sprache Steinthal supposed theory things thought thunder tion trace truth Urspr utterance verb vocal voice Wedgwood words καὶ τὰ τῶν
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Page 214 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 169 - This is dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page 236 - Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou ? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
Page 5 - It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words are but the images of matter, and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one, as to fall in love with a picture.
Page 56 - The baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that 'this is I :' But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of 'I,' and 'me,' And finds 'I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.
Page 239 - I say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it...
Page 190 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun: Which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his course.
Page 9 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 104 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes; As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Page 260 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.