An Exposure of the Fallacy of the Hamiltonian SystemEffingham Wilson, 1823 - 32 páginas |
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... attention . It may be supposed from what I have just stated , that I am naturally a very peaceable individual ; that I am as easily forced by circum- stances out of a tumult as I am forced by them into it . Quite the contrary ; I am in ...
... attention . It may be supposed from what I have just stated , that I am naturally a very peaceable individual ; that I am as easily forced by circum- stances out of a tumult as I am forced by them into it . Quite the contrary ; I am in ...
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... attention essential to the acquirement of a language , it will require very little skill in numerical calculation , to perceive the absurdity of Mr. Hamilton's statement . I desire no other proof of the value which was attached to his ...
... attention essential to the acquirement of a language , it will require very little skill in numerical calculation , to perceive the absurdity of Mr. Hamilton's statement . I desire no other proof of the value which was attached to his ...
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... attention , without regard to previous instruction , without regard to age , sex , or intellect , farther than to be possessed of common sense , and to know how to read English , arrived inva- riably at the same stage of proficiency ...
... attention , without regard to previous instruction , without regard to age , sex , or intellect , farther than to be possessed of common sense , and to know how to read English , arrived inva- riably at the same stage of proficiency ...
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... attention , any persons too far advanced in life to apply them- selves to study , and who are willing to learn any of the above sciences , by a simple method , and one shorter , as well as more solid than any which hath been hitherto ...
... attention , any persons too far advanced in life to apply them- selves to study , and who are willing to learn any of the above sciences , by a simple method , and one shorter , as well as more solid than any which hath been hitherto ...
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Página 22 - That, if grammar ought to be taught at any time, it must be to one that can speak the language already: how else can he be taught the grammar of it?
Página 30 - Prelate in an essay upon our grammar, that some of our most celebrated writers, and such as have hitherto passed for our English classics, have been guilty of great solecisms, inaccuracies, and even grammatical improprieties, in many places of their most finished works.
Página 28 - A Frenchman, a man of learning, is arrived at London ' from Paris, in order to teach the French language, ' Fables, Poetry, Heraldry, French Philosophy, and the ' Latin tongue ; without exacting any study from his ' scholars, all study being an obstacle to his method. If ' there be any constitutions too weak to bear contradic...
Página 23 - Could any one know a language, if the brain did not acquire habits answering to those of the ears to hear it, to those of the lips to speak it, and to those of the eyes to read it? The recollection of a language is not, therefore, solely in the habits of the brain ; it is besides in the habits of the organs of hearing, of speech, and of sight.
Página 22 - The rules of grammar, or the particular principles of a language, are only a collection of observations upon custom. It follows hence, that the knowledge of custom, or of a language, which is the same thing, ought to precede the knowledge of rules, for otherwise those rules must stand only for observations upon nothing at all!"— P.
Página 32 - With all his reflective habits, he never made up his mind on a subject. His adherents accounted for this by the astonishing magnitude of his ideas. He conceived every subject on so grand a scale that he had not room in his head to turn it over and examine both sides of it.
Página 23 - ... to those of the lips to speak it, and to those of the eyes to read it? The recollection of a language is not therefore solely in the habits of the brain ; it is besides in the habits of the organs of hearing, of speech and of sight ». This principle Dufief puts into practice as follows.