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... to highest spiritual things , or our common words of the shop and the market , and all the familiar intercourse of life . It will indeed repay you far better than you can easily believe . I am B sure , at least , that for many a young.
... to highest spiritual things , or our common words of the shop and the market , and all the familiar intercourse of life . It will indeed repay you far better than you can easily believe . I am B sure , at least , that for many a young.
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... believe that we should con- ceive the actual case most truly , if we conceived this power of naming things and expressing their relations , as one laid up in the depths of man's being , one of the divine capacities with which he was ...
... believe that we should con- ceive the actual case most truly , if we conceived this power of naming things and expressing their relations , as one laid up in the depths of man's being , one of the divine capacities with which he was ...
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... believe to have done , them a wrong . And this leads us to inquire how it comes to pass that we do not speak of the ' retaliation ' of benefits , as often as the ' retaliation ' of injuries ? The word does but signify the again ...
... believe to have done , them a wrong . And this leads us to inquire how it comes to pass that we do not speak of the ' retaliation ' of benefits , as often as the ' retaliation ' of injuries ? The word does but signify the again ...
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... believe , out of use ; which is a pity , the race it designates not yet being extinct . Full too of instruction and warning is our present employment of the word ' libertine . ' It signified , according to its earliest use in French and ...
... believe , out of use ; which is a pity , the race it designates not yet being extinct . Full too of instruction and warning is our present employment of the word ' libertine . ' It signified , according to its earliest use in French and ...
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... believe that these last named expositors are right , yet certainly the connexion of the Greek word for ' tongue ' with our ' gloze , ' ' glossy , ' with the German ' gleissen , ' to smoothe over or polish , and with an obsolete Greek ...
... believe that these last named expositors are right , yet certainly the connexion of the Greek word for ' tongue ' with our ' gloze , ' ' glossy , ' with the German ' gleissen , ' to smoothe over or polish , and with an obsolete Greek ...
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Page 176 - That it may please Thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so as in due time we may enjoy them ; We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
Page 57 - ... inkhorn terms, smelling too much of the Latin." It is curious to observe the " words of art," as he calls them, which Philemon Holland, a voluminous translator at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century...
Page 37 - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Page 8 - With Additions by Professors AGASSIZ, PIERCE, and GRAY; 12 Maps and Engravings on Steel, some Coloured, and copious Index.
Page 53 - 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.
Page 42 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
Page 58 - Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek; We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows.
Page 38 - The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft, and gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled.
Page 55 - If sounding Words are not of our growth and Manufacture, who shall hinder me to Import them from a Foreign Country? I carry not out the Treasure of the Nation, which is never to return: but what I bring from Italy, I spend in England : Here it remains, and here it circulates ; for if the Coyn be good, it will pass from one hand to another. I Trade both with the Living and the Dead, for the enrichment of our Native Language.
Page 17 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the 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.