The Art of Speech ...D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... changes in- cident to varieties of climate , habits of thought , and modes of life , introduced modifications into their original mother - speech , resulting in a well - defined family of languages . In India the speech became Sanskrit ...
... changes in- cident to varieties of climate , habits of thought , and modes of life , introduced modifications into their original mother - speech , resulting in a well - defined family of languages . In India the speech became Sanskrit ...
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... change and corruption . The dead languages furnish strik- ing evidence . The ancient speech of Egypt , for illustration , commenced its changes among the illit- erate masses . The priests , for sacred purposes , and the cultivated ...
... change and corruption . The dead languages furnish strik- ing evidence . The ancient speech of Egypt , for illustration , commenced its changes among the illit- erate masses . The priests , for sacred purposes , and the cultivated ...
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... changes among the civilized have taken place is surprising . At the time of Rome's grandest achievements , national songs , supposed to be about five hundred years old , were not intelligible even to those who were accus- tomed to sing ...
... changes among the civilized have taken place is surprising . At the time of Rome's grandest achievements , national songs , supposed to be about five hundred years old , were not intelligible even to those who were accus- tomed to sing ...
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... changes in speech take place in consequence of various easily defined causes . For instance , differences of climate ... changes in the vocabulary of their descendants two hundred years hence would result . More than this : a change in ...
... changes in speech take place in consequence of various easily defined causes . For instance , differences of climate ... changes in the vocabulary of their descendants two hundred years hence would result . More than this : a change in ...
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... change of character always results in radical word - changes . " Thy speech bewrayeth thee , " can be said of every man . If , therefore , a part of a migrating family should become more civilized in its new home , and the other part ...
... change of character always results in radical word - changes . " Thy speech bewrayeth thee , " can be said of every man . If , therefore , a part of a migrating family should become more civilized in its new home , and the other part ...
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Art of Speech: In Two Volumes; I. Studies in Poetry and Prose ... Luther Tracy Townsend Visualização integral - 1885 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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
Passagens conhecidas
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 35 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.