The Art of Speech ...D. Appleton, 1879 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 25
עמוד 10
... human race are characterized by such differences in speech that in most instances one cannot be understood by another . The number of these distinct tongues now employed is variously estimated from eight to nine hundred , while those ...
... human race are characterized by such differences in speech that in most instances one cannot be understood by another . The number of these distinct tongues now employed is variously estimated from eight to nine hundred , while those ...
עמוד 11
Luther Tracy Townsend. human speech naturally excite inquiries as to its origin and history . There is no record of the scientific study of speech- lore earlier than that of Protagoras , who went little further than to distinguish the ...
Luther Tracy Townsend. human speech naturally excite inquiries as to its origin and history . There is no record of the scientific study of speech- lore earlier than that of Protagoras , who went little further than to distinguish the ...
עמוד 17
... human family . " This group of tongues is found , first and last , to have ranged from Norway almost to Behrings Straits ; it has occupied the larger part of Central Asia , and established footholds in southern Asia and in southern ...
... human family . " This group of tongues is found , first and last , to have ranged from Norway almost to Behrings Straits ; it has occupied the larger part of Central Asia , and established footholds in southern Asia and in southern ...
עמוד 21
... Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of intelligence ; and of this thought language is a mani- festation . An idiom cannot , therefore , remain sta- tionary . It walks , it develops , it grows up , it fortifies itself , it ...
... Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of intelligence ; and of this thought language is a mani- festation . An idiom cannot , therefore , remain sta- tionary . It walks , it develops , it grows up , it fortifies itself , it ...
עמוד 24
... human speech . This conclusion gives us full liberty to adopt , upon scientific grounds , the working hypothesis that from one primitive stock all existing and historic tongues have had their origin . There is no possible question that ...
... human speech . This conclusion gives us full liberty to adopt , upon scientific grounds , the working hypothesis that from one primitive stock all existing and historic tongues have had their origin . There is no possible question that ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
accent adjective adverb Æsop allegory Allophylian Anglo-Saxon Aryan Aryan family BALFOUR STEWART beautiful belonging better called Celt CHAPTER Chaucer Cicero clause common composition compound connection consonant correct definition Demosthenes diction Dryden eloquence employed English language English speech English tongue euphonic expression fact figurative speech Figures of Oratory foreign given grammar Greek guage harmony hearer Hence human idea idiom illustration instance language Latin Law of Economy likewise linguistic literature long sentences Lord Luke Macaulay Matt Max Müller metaphor metonymy mind narration natural NOTE noun object original parables person phrase plural poems poetic speech poetic-prose speech poetry preacher principle pronoun prose Quintilian repetition requires rhetorical rhyme rules Sanskrit Saxon says Semitic sense sermon Shakspeare simile singular sound speak speaker student style syllables tence termed things thou thought tion tive usage verb verbal vocabulary vowel writer
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 242 - ... him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death...
עמוד 60 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
עמוד 129 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
עמוד 232 - To this succeeded that licentiousness which entered with the restoration, and, from infecting our religion and morals, fell to corrupt our language ; which last was not like to be much improved by those who at that time made up the court of king Charles the Second ; either such...
עמוד 35 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon...
עמוד 35 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.
עמוד 242 - The deed was executed with a degree of self-possession and steadiness, equal to the wickedness with which it was planned. The circumstances, now clearly in evidence, spread out the whole scene before us. Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man, to whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace.
עמוד 49 - Then Apollyon straddled quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said, I am void of fear in this matter; prepare thyself to die; for I swear by my infernal den, that thou shalt go no further; here will I spill thy soul.
עמוד 61 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we, Of many far wiser than we ; And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
עמוד 129 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.