Of the Origin and Progress of Language, Zväzok 1

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J. Balfour, 1774 - 704 strán (strany)

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Strana 289 - Outang is an aniiml of the human form, inside as well as outside: that he has the human intelligence, as much as can be expected in an animal living without civility or arts: that he has a disposition of mind, mild, docile, and humane: that he has the sentiments and affections peculiar to our species, such as the sense of modesty, of honor...
Strana 271 - Monboddo says, that as to his body, he [the orang-outang] is altogether man, both outside and inside, excepting some small variations, such as cannot make a specific difference between the two animals, and I am persuaded are less considerable than are to be found betwixt individuals that are undoubtedly of the human species. And, more particularly, he has, says Mr. Buffon, the tongue and the other organs of pronunciation the same as those of man; and the brain is altogether of the same form and the...
Strana 149 - England at prefent, who has practifed more upon them, and with greater fuccefs, than I believe any body living j and he fays, as I am informed, that if they lived long enough, and pains fufficient were taken upon them, it is impoffible to fay to what lengths fome of them might be carried j for there is a great difference among them, as well as us, in docility and natural capacity.
Strana 241 - They had no ufe of fire, but roafted their fifh upon the rocks by the heat of the fun. Neither do they appear to me to have had the faculty of fpeech ; for, though our author does not exprefsly fay fo, yet I think it is his meaning, from the account he gives of their journey to the fprings ; and it is clear that they had nothing like religion or government *. The next nation he mentions is that of the htfenfibles f, as he calls them, of whom I have already fpoken.
Strana 249 - Incas, lived, even at the time the author wrote, in a flate of the utmoft favagenefs and barbarity, having no religion at all, and worfhipping nothing either above or below them ; inhabiting caves, and hollows of trees, without communication...
Strana 594 - If it could be further proved, that the Celtic, and Teutonic, or its parent the Gothic, ware originally the fame language, which is the opinion of M.
Strana 269 - ... certain arts of life; but not fo far advanced as to have invented the great art of language ; to which I think the inhabitants of Nicobar...
Strana 468 - ... painting, or delineating any object by drawing the figure of it, it may have been ufed before the invention of language; but it could go no farther than to communicate the notion of vifible objects; and, befides, it is of flow and difficult practice, and not at all of fo ready ufe as language. Of thefe four ways of communication, it is plain, that only two have any connection with language, viz. inarticulate cries and imitative founds, which are both modifications of the human voice, as well...
Strana 515 - ... neceflary connection betwixt thinking and fpeaking, we trace there the progrefs of the human mind in its ftate of infancy; a fact of the greatefl importance in the hiftory of man, but of which there can be no other record except the languages of barbarous nations. In treating of this fubject I will follow the fame method that I have followed with refpect to the material part of fuch languages. — I will begin with the theory : X x 2 Not Ch.
Strana 364 - The laft flage of civil fociety, in which the progrcffion ends, is that moft perfect form of polity, which, to all the advantages of the governments laft mentioned, joins the care of the education of the youth...

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