The New Cratylus, Or Contributions Towards a More Accurate Knowledge of the Greek Language

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J. and J. J. Deighton, 1839 - 598 strán (strany)
 

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Strana 43 - go down and there confound their language that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.
Strana 41 - field and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him {Genesis,
Strana 2 - the planter who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm. The tradesman
Strana 76 - origin of these languages is traceable to Iran, a, country bounded on the north by the Caspian, on the south by the Indian Ocean, on the east by the Indus, and on the west by the Euphrates. Within these limits were spoken, so far as we can
Strana 70 - that there is no such thing as eternal, immutable, everlasting truth, unless mankind, such as they are at present, be also eternal, immutable, and everlasting; that two persons may contradict each other, and yet both speak truth, for the truth of one person may be opposite to the truth of another
Strana 417 - doth not only delight as profitable, but as amiable also. In which consideration the Grecians most divinely have given to the active perfection of men, a name expressing both beauty and goodness; because goodness, in ordinary speech, is, for the most part, applied only to that which is beneficial.'
Strana 29 - mutuation of refined arts and improved manners might have occasionally introduced; but in the main ground-work of language, in monosyllables, in the names of numbers, and the appellations of such things as would be first discriminated on the immediate dawn of civilization.'",
Strana 2 - priest becomes a form; the attorney, a statute book; the mechanic, a machine; the sailor, a rope of a ship." It was for this reason that the clear-headed Greeks denied the name of education
Strana 231 - when a horse trots, he makes semi-circles with his legs first on one side of the body and then on the other: so that the hind and fore feet on the same side occasionally touch. To this Virgil
Strana 73 - and (3), and preserved in such a state that the forms of the words may still be resolved into their simplest elements. (3) Languages which consist of disyllabic verbal roots, and require three consonants as the vehicles of their fundamental signification ; this class contains the Semitic languages only;

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