SelectionsOxford University Press, 1955 - Počet stran: 446 |
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Strana 39
... lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth , and that things are the sons of heaven . Language is only the instrument of science , and words are but the signs of ideas : I wish , however , that the in- strument ...
... lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth , and that things are the sons of heaven . Language is only the instrument of science , and words are but the signs of ideas : I wish , however , that the in- strument ...
Strana 40
... lexicography , that not only darkness , but light , impedes and distresses it ; things may be not only too little , but too much known , to be happily illustrated . To explain , requires the use of terms less abstruse than that which is ...
... lexicography , that not only darkness , but light , impedes and distresses it ; things may be not only too little , but too much known , to be happily illustrated . To explain , requires the use of terms less abstruse than that which is ...
Strana 44
... Lexicographer Fallible Thus have I laboured by settling the orthography , dis- playing the analogy , regulating the structures , and ascer- taining the signification of English words , to perform all the parts of a faithful lexicographer ...
... Lexicographer Fallible Thus have I laboured by settling the orthography , dis- playing the analogy , regulating the structures , and ascer- taining the signification of English words , to perform all the parts of a faithful lexicographer ...
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