A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest, Volume 1 |
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... thought reduced to the form of words ; but the words need not be written ; it is enough that they be spoken or sung , or even only conceived . All that writing does is to record and preserve them . It no more endows them with any new ...
... thought reduced to the form of words ; but the words need not be written ; it is enough that they be spoken or sung , or even only conceived . All that writing does is to record and preserve them . It no more endows them with any new ...
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... thought , add to the serviceable- ness of the work as a book of reference . Such brief notices are rather for being turned to by means of the Index than for straightforward perusal . The history of our literature , in so far as it is of ...
... thought , add to the serviceable- ness of the work as a book of reference . Such brief notices are rather for being turned to by means of the Index than for straightforward perusal . The history of our literature , in so far as it is of ...
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... thought itself , as the dress of thought ; with much more truth might writing be called the dress of language . It is an artificial or non - natural addition which language assumes as it grows up and gets civilized , -something that ...
... thought itself , as the dress of thought ; with much more truth might writing be called the dress of language . It is an artificial or non - natural addition which language assumes as it grows up and gets civilized , -something that ...
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... thought , or what we may call the conversion of thought into words , is probably as much a neces- sity of the organization , physical and mental , of the human being as it is an impossibility for that of any of the inferior animals . As ...
... thought , or what we may call the conversion of thought into words , is probably as much a neces- sity of the organization , physical and mental , of the human being as it is an impossibility for that of any of the inferior animals . As ...
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... thought and emotion transformed into or manifested in language that the fabric of literature is woven . But literature is not , like lan- guage , a necessary product of our humanity . Man has been no- where found without a language ...
... thought and emotion transformed into or manifested in language that the fabric of literature is woven . But literature is not , like lan- guage , a necessary product of our humanity . Man has been no- where found without a language ...
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