The Etymologic Interpreter, Or, An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: To which is Prefixed an Introduction Containing a Full Development of the Principles of Etymology and Grammar, &c. &c. &cR. Hunter, 1824 - 274 σελίδες |
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... more experience and reflection have rendered him less dis- satisfied with it . Certainly much may be accom- plished in process of time by human ingenuity , with very scanty materials and very defective instruments . There is 2.
... more experience and reflection have rendered him less dis- satisfied with it . Certainly much may be accom- plished in process of time by human ingenuity , with very scanty materials and very defective instruments . There is 2.
Σελίδα 3
... less difference , probably , between lan- guage as we now find it and what it was in its in- fancy , than there is between the largest ship of war and the smallest canoe ; or between the most splen- did palace and the rudest hut . Every ...
... less difference , probably , between lan- guage as we now find it and what it was in its in- fancy , than there is between the largest ship of war and the smallest canoe ; or between the most splen- did palace and the rudest hut . Every ...
Σελίδα 6
... less than a corruption of Greek and Latin . The reason why many Greek and Latin words have been adopted by us , through the medium of the Italian , is sufficiently obvious . Rome , even when her consuls and emperors were no more , was ...
... less than a corruption of Greek and Latin . The reason why many Greek and Latin words have been adopted by us , through the medium of the Italian , is sufficiently obvious . Rome , even when her consuls and emperors were no more , was ...
Σελίδα 8
... less enlightened nations , but also of taking with it the very terms in which it happens to be contained . The fact is , words and thoughts are so mutually adapted , that transla- tion is always difficult , and often impossible , so ...
... less enlightened nations , but also of taking with it the very terms in which it happens to be contained . The fact is , words and thoughts are so mutually adapted , that transla- tion is always difficult , and often impossible , so ...
Σελίδα 12
... less , unworthy of his understanding and inconsistent with the philosophic spirit of free inquiry . He per- ceived a remarkable similarity or rather identity in many Gothic and Anglo - Saxon words with Greek and Latin terms . What is ...
... less , unworthy of his understanding and inconsistent with the philosophic spirit of free inquiry . He per- ceived a remarkable similarity or rather identity in many Gothic and Anglo - Saxon words with Greek and Latin terms . What is ...
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absurd adjective affix admit adopted Anglo-Saxon arbitrary grammar composition concerning connexion Connouns considered consonant contr contraction corrupted definition derived designation Dictionary discarded distinctions diversity ellipsis employed English language entities established usage etymologic etymology evidently exist French frequently Gothic Goths gram grammarians grammatic grammatists Greek Greek and Latin guage guttural hence honour Horne Tooke indicate infinitive mood instances Italian learned letters Lindley Murray meaning merely metaphysical mode of expression Mood mouth names nations nature neutrologistic nominative nouns object obvious onomatopeia opinion origin participle perhaps philosophic plural possession preceding prefix preposition present pron pronounced pronouns pronunciation proper propriety purpose reason regular verb remarks render rule Saxon seems sentence signification singular sound speech spelling sufficient suppose syllable tence tense thing third person thou tion tive torule train uniformly useless verbal vowel vulgar whence wholly words write
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Σελίδα 220 - I am. Thou art. He is. We are. You are. They are. I was. Thou wast He was. We were. You were. They were.
Σελίδα 145 - A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled.
Σελίδα 106 - An Adjective is a word added to a substantive, to express its quality : as, " An industrious man ; a virtuous woman.
Σελίδα 240 - Their march,' says the author, speaking of the Greeks under Alexander, ' their march was through an uncultivated country, whose savage inhabitants fared hardly, having no other riches than a breed of lean sheep, whose flesh was rank and unsavoury, by reason of their continual feeding upon sea-fish.
Σελίδα 243 - It is folly to pretend to arm ourselves against the accidents of life, by heaping up treasures, which nothing can protect us against, but the good providence of our Creator.
Σελίδα 243 - By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece.
Σελίδα 248 - The only exceptions are, of, if, as, is, has, was, yes, his, this, us, and thus.
Σελίδα 243 - are these designs which any man who is born a Briton, in any circumstances, in any situation...
Σελίδα 240 - The march of the Greeks, the description of the inhabitants through whose country they passed, the account of their sheep and the reason of their sheep being disagreeable food, make a jumble of objects, slightly related to each other, which the reader cannot, without considerable difficulty, comprehend under one view.
Σελίδα 115 - The persons speaking and spoken to, being at the same time the subjects of the discourse, are supposed to be present ; from which, and other circumstances, their sex is commonly known, and needs not be marked by a distinction of gender...