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[23] It should be, ”_to all living creatures_;” for each creature had, probably, but one name--G Brown
[24] Soe to have sprung up a men _of itself_, like spontaneous combustion in oiled cotton; and sees and acute minds must necessarily or naturally utter their conceptions by words--and even by words both spoken and written Frederick Von Schlegel, adenerally,” and referring speech to its ”_original source_--a deep feeling, and a clear discri _developed itself_ at the sae; not wearing at first the symbolic form, which it subsequently assumed in compliance with the necessities of a less civilized people, but cons, which, in accordance with the sie, actually conveyed the sentiton's Translation of Schlegel's aesthetic Works_, p
455
[25] ”Modern Europe owes a principal share of its enlightened and es which have accrued to history, religion, the philosophy of the ress of society; the benefits which have resulted from the e of the progress and attaines can bestow on the present, has reached it through the uages_, Vol
II, p 335
[26] ”The idea of God is a development from within, and a matter of faith, not an induction from without, and a matter of proof When Christianity has developed its correlative principles within us, then we find evidences of its truth everywhere; nature is full of them: but we cannot find them before, simply because we have no eye to find them with”--H N HUDSON: _Democratic Review, May_, 1845
[27] So far as mind, soul, or spirit, is a subject of natural science, (under whatever name,) it may of course be known naturally To say to what extent theology e of any kind may have been opened to men otherwise than by words, is not now in point Dr Cay_] I also coy_, which, in my opinion, have been most unnaturally disjoined by philosophers Spirit, which here co and the human soul, is surely as much included under the notion of natural object as a body is, and is knowable to the philosopher purely in the same way, by observation and experience”--_Philosophy of Rhetoric_, p 66 It is quite unnecessary for the teacher of languages to lead his pupils into any speculations on this subject It is equally foreign to the history of grammar and to the philosophy of rhetoric
[28] ”Except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be knohat is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of thenification Therefore, if I know not theof the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh, a barbarian; and he that speaketh, shall be a barbarian unto me”--_1 Cor_, xiv 9, 10, 11 ”It is ie of words should outstrip our knowledge of things It may, and often doth, come short of it Words may be remens, whilst we renified”--_Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric_, p 160 ”Words can excite only ideas already acquired, and if no previous ideas have been for sounds”--_Spurzheim on Education_, p 200
[29] Sheridan the elecutionist makes this distinction: ”All that passes in the mind of man, may be reduced to two classes, which I call ideas and ehts which rise, and pass in succession in the , co its ideas; as well as the effects produced on all the itation of the passions, to the cals produced by the operation of the intellect and the fancy In short, thought is the object of the one; internal feeling, of the other That which serves to express the fore of ens of the one: tones, of the other Without the use of these two sorts of language, it is ih the ear, all that passes in the ; Blair's Lectures_, p 333
[30] ”Language is _the great instruht forward, moulded, polished, and exerted”--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p xiv
[31] It should be, ”_These are_”--G B
[32] It should be, ”_They fitly represent_”--G B
[33] This is badly expressed; for, according to his own deduction, _each part_ has but _one sign_ It should be, ”We express _the several parts by as ns_”--G Brown
[34] It would be better English to say, ”the _instruns”--G Brown
[35] ”Good speakers do not pronounce above three syllables in a second of ti in the necessary pauses”--_Steele's Melody of Speech_
[36] The sa sentence froards the analysis of the operations of the ies_, reat measure be abstruse and dark”--_Philosophy of Rhetoric_, p 289 Yet this philosopher has given it as his opinion, ”that we really _think by signs_ as well as speak by them”--_Ib_, p 284 To reconcile these two positions with each other, we ns, or words, is a process infinitely eneralization or abstraction which gives to sis a common name, is certainly no laborious exercise of intellect; nor does anysuch a naeneral sense and the particular are alike easy to the understanding, and I know not whether it is worth while to inquire which is first in order Dr Alexander Murray says, ”It eneral to a particular sense The work of abstraction, the ascent fros to classes of these, was finished before terms were invented Man was silent till he had formed some ideas to communicate; and association of his perceptions soon led him to think and reason in ordinary es_, Vol I, p 94 And, in a note upon this passage, he adds: ”This is to be understood of primitive or radical terms By the assertion that man was silent till he had formed ideas to coinally destitute of the natural expressions of feeling or thought All that it i an uncertain period of time, to the impressions an to express the natural varieties of these by articulated soundsThough the abstraction which forreatly aided or supported by the signs; yet it were absurd to suppose that the sign was invented, till the sense demanded it”--_Ib_, p 399
[38] Dr Alexander Murray too, In accounting for the frequent abbreviation of words, see thee which results frohts_ which they express Harsh co words preserve only the principal, that is, the accented part If a nation accents its words on the last syllable, the preceding ones will often be short, and liable to contraction If it follow a contrary practice, the teres, Vol I, p 172
[39] ”We cannot form a distinct idea of any moral or intellectual quality, unless we find some trace of it in ourselves”--_Beattie's Moral Science, Part Second, Natural Theology_, Chap II, No 424
[40] ”Aristotle tells us that the world is a copy or transcript of those ideas which are in the , and that those ideas which are in the mind of man, are a transcript of the world To this we may add, that words are the transcripts of those ideas which are in the_are_ [is] the transcript of words”--_Addison, Spect_, No 166
[41] Bolingbroke on Retirement and Study, Letters on History, p 364
[42] See this passage in ”The Econoned to be a coenerally understood to have been written or coenious bookseller in London
[43] ”Those philosophers whose ideas of _being_ and _knowledge_ are derived from body and sensation, have a short method to explain the nature of _Truth_--It is a _factitious_ thing, oes, just as it is resnot only subsequent to sensible objects, but even to our sensations of the to this hypothesis, there are er; others, that will be, and have not been yet; and multitudes, that possibly may never exist at all But there are other reasoners, who must surely have had very different notions; those, I mean, who represent Truth not as _the last_, but as _the first_ of beings; who call it _immutable, eternal, o more than human”--_Harris's Herrammar, I shall discourse in an other chapter That methods radically different ent person will suppose The formation of just methods of instruction, or true systems of science, is work for those minds which are capable of the ht He that is capable of ”originating and producing”