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... modes of danger and pain . In many grand objects , there is not the least coincidence with terror ; as in the magnificent prospect of widely extended plains , and of the starry firmament ; or in the moral dispositions and sen- timents ...
... modes of danger and pain . In many grand objects , there is not the least coincidence with terror ; as in the magnificent prospect of widely extended plains , and of the starry firmament ; or in the moral dispositions and sen- timents ...
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... mode of living , by hunting or pasturage , must have separated them frequently from each other . In such a condition , how could any one set of sounds or words be universally agreed on , as the signs of their ideas ? Supposing that a ...
... mode of living , by hunting or pasturage , must have separated them frequently from each other . In such a condition , how could any one set of sounds or words be universally agreed on , as the signs of their ideas ? Supposing that a ...
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... mode of speaking by natural What have many learned men imagined ? How is this principle to be applied to language ? -Why is it not found now ? -What are words as we now use them ? -Of what can there be no doubt ? What were the elements ...
... mode of speaking by natural What have many learned men imagined ? How is this principle to be applied to language ? -Why is it not found now ? -What are words as we now use them ? -Of what can there be no doubt ? What were the elements ...
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... mode of speaking , necessity gave rise . But we must observe that , after this necessity had in a great degree ceased , by language becoming in process of time more extensive and copious , the ancient man- ner of speech still subsisted ...
... mode of speaking , necessity gave rise . But we must observe that , after this necessity had in a great degree ceased , by language becoming in process of time more extensive and copious , the ancient man- ner of speech still subsisted ...
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... mode of utterance , operates upon the style , and gives it additional life and spirit . As one proof among many , which might be pro- duced to the truth of these observations , we shall transcribe a speech from Colden's History of the ...
... mode of utterance , operates upon the style , and gives it additional life and spirit . As one proof among many , which might be pro- duced to the truth of these observations , we shall transcribe a speech from Colden's History of the ...
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