like ours, where so many words are derived from other languages, there are few modes of instruction more useful or more amusing than that of accustoming young people to seek for the etymology or primary meaning of the words they use. There are cases... Aids to Reflection - Page 6by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Butler (of Birmingham.) - 1828 - 178 pages
...instruction more useful or more amusing, than that of accustoming young people to seek for the etymology or primary meaning of the words they use. There are cases...history of a word, than by the history of a campaign." The pupil may use with advantage " The Student's Manual : being 69 an etymological and explanatory... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 610 pages
...young people to seek for the etymology, or primary meaning, of the words they use. There are ca**, in which more knowledge of more value may be conveyed...history of a word, than by the history of a campaign. [5] p. 5. I am not ashamed to confess that I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue instead of... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 450 pages
...instruction more useful or more amusing than that of accustoming young people to seek for the etymology, or primary meaning, of the words they use. There are...of more value may be conveyed by the history of a vord, than by the history of a campaign. COMMENT. Let it not, however, be forgotten, that the powers... | |
| Phillips Brooks - 1838 - 394 pages
...and praise. The word itself and its history are interesting. f' There are cases," says Coleridge, " in which more knowledge, of more value, may be conveyed...history of a word than by the history of a campaign." You can often trace a word down the generations and judge of the character of each period by seeing... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 404 pages
...words they use. There are cases, in ^ j which more knowledge of more value may be conveyed by the j \history of a word, than by the history of a campaign....not ashamed to confess that I dislike the frequent Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light, as well as immortality, was... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 384 pages
...instruction more useful or more amusing than that of accustoming young people to seek for the etymology, or primary meaning of the words they use. There are cases, in which more knowledge of more value may he conveyed by the history of a word, than by the history of a campaign. t I am not ashamed to confess... | |
| 1861 - 716 pages
...we can but trace, we shall find to be of wonderful interest. " There are cases," says Coleridge, " in which more knowledge of more value may be conveyed...history of a word than by the history of a campaign." It is of especial importance and interest to trace the history of our own tongue, for the English language... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1845 - 324 pages
...nothing that exceeds it, in point of real and broad utility. It is a fine remark of Coleridge, that " there are cases in which more knowledge of more value...history of a word, than by the history of a campaign.*" Another object that I have had in view in preparing this book is, to show scholars that in learning... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 406 pages
...instruction more useful or more amusing than that of accustoming young people to seek for the etymology, or primary meaning of the words they use. There are cases,...not ashamed to confess that I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit : and that in prayer or preaching before... | |
| George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1848 - 426 pages
...instruction more useful or more amusing than that of accustoming young people to seek for the etymology, or primary meaning of the words they use. There are cases, in which more knowledge of more value may bo conveyed by the history of a word, than by the history of a campaign." The value of the historical... | |
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