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... hands , whose studies in language had been fuller and riper than my own . But abundant and ready to hand , as are the materials for such a book , I did not ; while yet it seems to me that the sub- ject is one to which it is beyond ...
... hands , whose studies in language had been fuller and riper than my own . But abundant and ready to hand , as are the materials for such a book , I did not ; while yet it seems to me that the sub- ject is one to which it is beyond ...
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... hands and make it our own . " What riches , " one exclaims , " lie hidden in the vulgar tongue of our poorest What flowers of paradise lie under our feet , with their beauties and their parts undistinguished and undiscerned , from ...
... hands and make it our own . " What riches , " one exclaims , " lie hidden in the vulgar tongue of our poorest What flowers of paradise lie under our feet , with their beauties and their parts undistinguished and undiscerned , from ...
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... hands ; all which they can do at the best is to prevent men from discovering and attending to their own internal ... hand we declare that the good which will really fill our souls and satisfy them to the utter- most , is not in us ...
... hands ; all which they can do at the best is to prevent men from discovering and attending to their own internal ... hand we declare that the good which will really fill our souls and satisfy them to the utter- most , is not in us ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... hand in hand a corresponding impoverishment and debasement of language , so on the contrary , where there is advance and progress , where a divine idea is in any measure realizing itself in a people , where they are learning more ...
... hand in hand a corresponding impoverishment and debasement of language , so on the contrary , where there is advance and progress , where a divine idea is in any measure realizing itself in a people , where they are learning more ...
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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.