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Pagina 172
Accordingly when we write , we write it like a dead language , which we
understand , but cannot speak ; avoiding , perhaps , all ungrammatical
expressions , and even the barbarisms of our country , but at the same time
without communicating ...
Accordingly when we write , we write it like a dead language , which we
understand , but cannot speak ; avoiding , perhaps , all ungrammatical
expressions , and even the barbarisms of our country , but at the same time
without communicating ...
Pagina 345
Setting aside the particular nature of their language , however , which cannot be
denied to indicate antiquity , upon a superficial consideration , but which when
we inquire into the causes that produced it , instead of surveying it as an effect of
...
Setting aside the particular nature of their language , however , which cannot be
denied to indicate antiquity , upon a superficial consideration , but which when
we inquire into the causes that produced it , instead of surveying it as an effect of
...
Pagina 347
Mr. Barrow , page 172 says , “ The sounds and various inflections incidental to
languages in general , are not ... They speak equally strong to a person who is
deaf and dumb , as the most copious language could do to one , in the full ...
Mr. Barrow , page 172 says , “ The sounds and various inflections incidental to
languages in general , are not ... They speak equally strong to a person who is
deaf and dumb , as the most copious language could do to one , in the full ...
Pagina 495
the language , * which may be considered the chief study of the literati as well as
the people ; and to obtain a perfect comprehension of which , a whole life
devoted to it , would not be more than sufficient . It can scarcely be imagined that
much ...
the language , * which may be considered the chief study of the literati as well as
the people ; and to obtain a perfect comprehension of which , a whole life
devoted to it , would not be more than sufficient . It can scarcely be imagined that
much ...
Pagina 497
The Chinese language , according to sir George Staunton , must be ill suited to
philosophical disquisitions , and at best , an inconvenient instrument of accurate
thought . The follow . ing is the passage from which we draw this conclusion ; and
...
The Chinese language , according to sir George Staunton , must be ill suited to
philosophical disquisitions , and at best , an inconvenient instrument of accurate
thought . The follow . ing is the passage from which we draw this conclusion ; and
...
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