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abbreviations adjective adverb amongst Anglo-Saxon antient authority boke booke c'est called cause chap Chaucer common concerning conjunction corruption Danish denote derived discourse Douglas Dutch employed English enim essay etiam etymologists etymology euery explained fait French give Gothic Gower grammar grammarians Grammatica Greek grete Harris hath haue ideas imperative indeclinable instances Italian John Horne Tooke Johnson Junius kynge language langues Latin Lelang LEST Locke lord lord Monboddo loue manner meaning merely mind modern mots neuer never noun old English opinion orationis origin particular past participle perhaps philosophers preposition prol pronounce qu'il quæ quam quod RATHE reason Scaliger sche Scioppius sentence shewn signification Skinner says sorts of words speech substantive sunt suppose Tale termination thare thing thou thyng tion Troylus truth Tyrwhit UNLESS unto verb Whan Wilkins writing written wyfe
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Pagina 219 - Such is the doubtful use of it by Shakespear in the following passage: " Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, ?? It seems to me most strange that men should fear; " Seeing that death, a necessary
Pagina 62 - again, sect. 11. —" General and universal belong not to the real " existence of things ; but are the inventions and " creatures of the understanding, made by it for " its own use, and concern only signs. Universality " belongs not to things themselves which are all " of them particular in their existence. When " therefore we quit particulars, the generals that
Pagina 383 - Than she, remembering belike the continual " and incessant and confident speeches and courses " that I had held on my lord's side, became utterly " alienated from me." Sir F. Bacon's Apology. " Will he, so wise, let loose at once his ire, " Belike through impotence, or unaware, " To give his enemies their wish
Pagina 92 - your account of if, and I have done. We have in English another word which (though now rather obsolete) used frequently to supply the place of if. As—" an you had any eye behind ". you, you might see more detraction at your heels, <* than fortunes before you
Pagina 36 - signs, he says—" The consideration then of '• ideas and words, as the great instruments of " knowledge, makes no despicable part of their " contemplation who would take a view of human "■ knowledge in the whole extent of it: and '* perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed and duly " considered, they would afford us another sort of
Pagina 371 - astray'd, means strawed, scattered and dispersed as the straw is about the fields. " Reaping where thou hast not sown, and " gathering where thou hast not strawed.
Pagina 62 - rest are only creatures of our own making; their "general nature being nothing but the capacity " they are put into of signifying or representing " many particulars." Now from this necessity of general terms, follows immediately the necessity of the Article: whose business it is, to reduce
Pagina 61 - formed to things, should be so too; I mean in ** their signification. But yet we find the quite " contrary. The far greatest part of words that '' make all languages, are General Terms. Which " has not been the effect of neglect, or chance, but " of reason and necessity : For, first, it is
Pagina 307 - wither as needeth for burning in Mow." [ie burning in Mow, the cause why it needeth to wither. " And, for the time shall not seem tedious, « I'll tell thee what befell me on a day( 1 )." £ie the cause of my telling thee, is, that the time may not seem tedious.]
Pagina 305 - through superstition, so he ■" would be blinded, now and then, by human policy." [ie the darkness, or ignorance, or bigotry of those times being the cause, why even such sight, as he then had, may be called or reckoned clear.] " 12. With appropriation to; as....shadow will '< serve for summer. Prick him: For we have a " number of shadows to fill up the muster-book.