 SPEECH, consisting of names or appellations, and their connexion; whereby men register their thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutual utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men,...  Juvenile Crime: Its Causes, Character, and Cure - Page 257by Samuel Phillips Day - 1858 - 455 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir William Lawrence - Anatomy, Comparative - 1819 - 646 pages
...animal;" he has formed arms and weapons, he has devised various means of procuring fire. Lastly, " The most noble and profitable invention of all others...nor society, no more than amongst lions, bears, and wolves-f-.'" This is a most important characteristic of man, since it is not born with him, like the... | |
 | Sir William Lawrence - Anthropology - 1822 - 544 pages
...animal :" he has formed arms and weapons ; he has devised various means of procuring fire. Lastly, " The most noble and profitable invention of all others...no more than amongst lions, bears, and wolves."'*' This is a most important characteristic of man ; since it is not born with him, like the voices of... | |
 | Natural history - 1831 - 420 pages
...tool making animal : he has formed arms and weapons ; he has devised various means of procuring fire. The most noble and profitable invention of all others...utility and conversation, without which there had been among men neither commonwealth nor society, no more than among lions, bears and wolves. This is a most... | |
 | Books - 1836 - 640 pages
...handled by the •writer. " ' The most noble and profitable invention of all others,' says Hcbbes, • was that of speech ; whereby men declare their thoughts...neither common-wealth nor society, no more than amongst liens, bears, and wolves.' This is a most important characteristic of man, since it is not born with... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Authors, English - 1836 - 538 pages
...connections; whereby men register their thoughts, recall them when they are past, and also declare them one to another for mutual utility and conversation...been amongst men, neither commonwealth, nor society, nor contract, nor peace, no more than amongst lions, bears, and wolves. The first author of speech... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 pages
...connections; whereby men register their thoughts, recall them when- they are- past, and also declare them one to another for mutual utility and conversation...been amongst men, neither commonwealth, nor society, nor contract, nor peace, no more than amongst lions, bears, and wolves. The first author of speech... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pages
...connections; whereby men register their thoughts, recall them when they are past, and also declare them one to another for mutual utility and conversation...been amongst men, neither commonwealth, nor society, nor contract, nor peace, no more than amongst lions, bears, and wolves. The first author of speech... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 pages
...connections ; whereby men register their thoughts, recall them when they are past, and also declaro thorn one to another for mutual utility and conversation; without which there had boon amongst men, neither commonwealth, nor society, nor contract, nor peace, no moro than amongst... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...-—Blackstone. 861. Music is good or bad as the end to which it tendeth.— Fcltham. 862. Speech. — " The most noble and profitable invention of all others...conversation, without which there had been amongst men neither common wealth, nor society, no more than amongst Lions, Bears, and Wolves." (Cuvier.J This is a most... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1839 - 744 pages
...connexion; whereby men register their thoughts ; recall them when they are past ; and also declare them one to another for mutual utility and conversation...been amongst men, neither commonwealth, nor society, nor contract, nor peace, no more than amongst lions, bears, and wolves. The first author of speech... | |
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