The British Controversialist and Literary MagazineHoulston and Stonemen, 1865 - Great Britain |
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... Words are conventional signs of what takes place in the mind . " WORDS DIVISION OF Words . ( See Aristotle on Enunciation , ch . i . - iii . ) 1 , whose parts have no meaning - simple words 2 , whose parts have meaning - sentences Verbs ...
... Words are conventional signs of what takes place in the mind . " WORDS DIVISION OF Words . ( See Aristotle on Enunciation , ch . i . - iii . ) 1 , whose parts have no meaning - simple words 2 , whose parts have meaning - sentences Verbs ...
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... words as the exponents of thought , and composes his sentences with felicitous beauty and exactness . With much of the weighty reflectiveness of Butler and the natural sagacity of Whately , he combines an affluence of imaginative ...
... words as the exponents of thought , and composes his sentences with felicitous beauty and exactness . With much of the weighty reflectiveness of Butler and the natural sagacity of Whately , he combines an affluence of imaginative ...
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... word of which the meaning is better known , and of which an acceptable definition is worse to give , than almost any other in current use . A scientific definition of the term is hardly attainable , for every separate school of ...
... word of which the meaning is better known , and of which an acceptable definition is worse to give , than almost any other in current use . A scientific definition of the term is hardly attainable , for every separate school of ...
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... words on the subject . Possibly some of our readers will be Hebrew scholars as well as scientific men ; if so , would they but compare our version with the Hebrew , and consider carefully what science urges , they would see that many a ...
... words on the subject . Possibly some of our readers will be Hebrew scholars as well as scientific men ; if so , would they but compare our version with the Hebrew , and consider carefully what science urges , they would see that many a ...
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... words in the " Biographia Literaria , " should be directed to persons and characters supernatural , or at least romantic . They fixed upon a subject which they agreed to elaborate together , and which afterwards bore the name of " The ...
... words in the " Biographia Literaria , " should be directed to persons and characters supernatural , or at least romantic . They fixed upon a subject which they agreed to elaborate together , and which afterwards bore the name of " The ...
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Page 47 - Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate? And is that Woman all her crew? Is that a DEATH? and are there two? Is DEATH that woman's mate?
Page 153 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Page 232 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Page 152 - ... only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Page 230 - He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 152 - ... an objection. Sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation, of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it.
Page 49 - Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way. The lovely lady, Christabel, Whom her father loves so well, What makes her in the wood so late, A furlong from the castle gate ? She had dreams all yesternight Of her own betrothed knight ; And she in the midnight wood will pray For the weal of her lover that's far away.
Page 103 - Our clock strikes when there is a change from hour to hour; but no hammer in the Horologe of Time peals through the universe, when there is a change from Era to Era.
Page 400 - ... no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away...
Page 152 - ... under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense...