English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms. With a History of Its Origin and Development. Designed for Use in Colleges and SchoolsHarper & Brothers, 1855 - 754 pages |
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... voice for expressing the thoughts and emotions of the human mind . These articulate sounds are , to the hearer , signs of what is in the mind of the speaker . This is the primary meaning of the term language . In a secondary sense , the ...
... voice for expressing the thoughts and emotions of the human mind . These articulate sounds are , to the hearer , signs of what is in the mind of the speaker . This is the primary meaning of the term language . In a secondary sense , the ...
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... voice are materials , furnished by nature , for forming a collection of signs fit to express the most subtile and delicate thoughts and emotions of the human mind . Brutes , indeed , utter certain sounds indicating their feelings , but ...
... voice are materials , furnished by nature , for forming a collection of signs fit to express the most subtile and delicate thoughts and emotions of the human mind . Brutes , indeed , utter certain sounds indicating their feelings , but ...
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... voice could be made effective in raising the thought of a certain animal in the mind of a person ignorant of our language , would be to imitate the sound of the animal in question . There is a story of an English gentleman who , being ...
... voice could be made effective in raising the thought of a certain animal in the mind of a person ignorant of our language , would be to imitate the sound of the animal in question . There is a story of an English gentleman who , being ...
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... voice flies from the lips to mingle with the winds , to be lost without an echo to the thought which it conveyed . Scripta manent . Writ- ten down , it may continue sounding on , as from a trumpet - tongue , through all time , speaking ...
... voice flies from the lips to mingle with the winds , to be lost without an echo to the thought which it conveyed . Scripta manent . Writ- ten down , it may continue sounding on , as from a trumpet - tongue , through all time , speaking ...
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... voices of the people . This is true of the Sanscrit , of the Greek , of the Latin , of the Anglo - Saxon . These are dead languages . They are in a petri- fied state , and they exhibit the " modes of thought of the people who spoke them ...
... voices of the people . This is true of the Sanscrit , of the Greek , of the Latin , of the Anglo - Saxon . These are dead languages . They are in a petri- fied state , and they exhibit the " modes of thought of the people who spoke them ...
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Common terms and phrases
accent adjective adverb Alphabet ancient Anglo-Norman Anglo-Saxon antepenult breath called Celtic Celts classification combination common Compose a sentence compound CONSONANT SOUNDS consonantal elements consonantal sounds Danish dative denotes dialect Diphthong elementary sound England English language equivalent etymological euphony express French gender genitive German Give glish Gothic Gothic language grammar Greek guage inflection Italian kings Latin language Latin words letters loved Low Germanic meaning mind mode mouth nature Norman Norman Conquest nouns object origin orthoepy orthography participle peculiarities person Philippe de Thaun phonetic elements plural preposition present preterit pronoun pronunciation QUESTIONS UNDER CHAPTER race relation represented Roman roots Sanscrit Saxon Shemitic singular sometimes sonant SPECIMEN speech spoken language stock of languages substantive surd syllable taken term termination Teutonic th in thin thee thine thing thou tion tongue verbs vocal voice vowel vowel sounds Welsh whence word derived καὶ