Epea Pteroenta: Or The Diversions of Purley, Volume 1 |
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Abbreviations adjective adune adverb amongst Anglo-Saxon antient Article authority autres boke booke Brantome Butan c'est called Cause Chaucer common Conjunctions corruption Danish denote derived Douglas dune Dutch employed English enim etiam etymologists etymology euery explained fait French give Gothic Gower Gram Grammar Grammarians Greek grete guage Harris hath haue Ibid ideas imperative Infinitive instances Italian Johnson Junius kynge language langue Latin learned Lelang Leran LEST Lord Lord Monboddo loue manner meaning merely mind modern mots neuer never noun old English opinion orationis origin particular past participle philosophers preposition Present Participle Prol pronounce Purley qu'il quæ quam quod RATHE reason Scaliger sche Scioppius sentence signification Skinner says sorts of words speech substantive sunt suppose Tale termination thare thing thou thyng tion Troylus truth unto verb Whan writing written wyfe
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Page xxxii - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Page 168 - The Moor — howbeit that I endure him not, — Is of a constant, loving, noble nature ; And, I dare think, he'll prove to Desdemona A most dear husband.
Page 340 - In books, not authors, curious is my lord ; To all their dated backs he turns you round ; These Aldus printed, those Du Sue'il has bound! Lo, some are vellum, and the rest as good For all his lordship knows, but they are wood. For Locke or Milton 'tis in vain to look, These shelves admit not any modern book.
Page 348 - If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Page 442 - Devoid of sense and motion? And who knows, Let this be good, whether our angry Foe Can give it, or will ever? How he can Is doubtful; that he never will is sure. Will he, so wise, let loose at once his ire, Belike through impotence, or unaware, To give his enemies their wish, and end Them in his anger whom his anger saves To punish endless? Wherefore cease we then?
Page 27 - ... although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well "loquendum ut vulgus sentiendum ut sapientes"; yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgement.
Page 58 - ALL things that exist being particulars, it may perhaps be thought reasonable that words, which ought to be conformed to things, should be so too, — I mean in their signification: but yet we find quite the contrary. The far greatest part of words that make all languages are general terms; which has not been the effect of neglect or chance, but of reason and necessity.
Page 28 - ... by unmasking many wild errors, that shelter themselves under the disguise of affected phrases ; which, being philosophically unfolded, and rendered according to the genuine and natural importance of words, will appear to be inconsistencies and contradictions. And several of those pretended mysterious, profound notions, expressed in great swelling words, whereby some men set up for reputation, being this way examined will appear to be either nonsense, or very flat and jejune.
Page 244 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 139 - And to ben holden digne of reverence. But for to speken of hir conscience, She was so charitable and so pitous She wolde wepe if that she sawe a mous Caught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.