On the Study of Words: Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training School, WinchesterMacmillan and Company, 1882 - 348 strán (strany) |
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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 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 onymous 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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Strana 57 - 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.
Strana 102 - 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!
Strana 101 - 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.
Strana 15 - to see what he would call them, and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Strana 34 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Ilium?
Strana 38 - 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.
Strana 14 - Yet this must not be taken to affirm that man started at the first furnished with a full-formed vocabulary of words, and as it were with his first dictionary and first grammar ready-made to his hands. He did not thus begin the world with names, but with the power of naming : for man is not a mere speaking machine; God did not teach him words, as one of us teaches a parrot, from without; but gave him a capacity, and then evoked the capacity which He gave.