The Works of Adam Smith: Considerations concerning the formation of languages. Essays on philosophical subjects. Account of the life and writings of Dr. SmithT. Cadell, 1811 |
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Adam Smith. CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE FIRST FORMATION OF LANGUAGES , AND THE Different Genius of original and compounded LANGUAGES . VOL . V. B CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE FIRST FORMATION OF LANGUAGES , & c.
Adam Smith. CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE FIRST FORMATION OF LANGUAGES , AND THE Different Genius of original and compounded LANGUAGES . VOL . V. B CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE FIRST FORMATION OF LANGUAGES , & c.
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... original form , undergo fo great a number of variations , as would be fufficient to exprefs that almost infinite variety of qualities , by which it might , upon different occafions , be neceffary to fpecify and diftinguish them . Though ...
... original form , undergo fo great a number of variations , as would be fufficient to exprefs that almost infinite variety of qualities , by which it might , upon different occafions , be neceffary to fpecify and diftinguish them . Though ...
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... original invention of nouns adjective would be attended with fo much difficulty , that of prepofitions would be accompanied with yet more . Every prepofition , as I have already obferved , denotes fome relation con . fidered in concrete ...
... original invention of nouns adjective would be attended with fo much difficulty , that of prepofitions would be accompanied with yet more . Every prepofition , as I have already obferved , denotes fome relation con . fidered in concrete ...
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... original languages , we might expect to find , at least fix , if not eight or nine varia- tions , in the termination of every verb , ac- cording as the event which it denoted was meant to be affirmed of the firft , fecond , or third ...
... original languages , we might expect to find , at least fix , if not eight or nine varia- tions , in the termination of every verb , ac- cording as the event which it denoted was meant to be affirmed of the firft , fecond , or third ...
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... original emotion of a species diftinct from all others . The violent and fudden change produced upon the mind , when an emotion of any kind is brought fuddenly upon it , constitutes the whole nature of Surprise . But when not only a ...
... original emotion of a species diftinct from all others . The violent and fudden change produced upon the mind , when an emotion of any kind is brought fuddenly upon it , constitutes the whole nature of Surprise . But when not only a ...
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Página 490 - He will accommodate, as well as he can, his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people, and will remedy, as well as he can, the inconveniencies which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to.
Página 4 - When they had occasion, therefore, to mention, or to point out to each other, any of the new objects, they would naturally utter the name of the correspondent old one, of which the idea could not fail, at that instant, to present itself to their memory in the strongest and liveliest manner. And thus, those words, which were originally the proper names of individuals, would each of them insensibly become the common name of a multitude.
Página 80 - Philosophy, by representing the invisible chains which bind together all these disjointed objects, endeavours to introduce order into this chaos of jarring and discordant appearances, to allay this tumult of the imagination...
Página 476 - ... a theory of the general principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of, the laws of all nations.
Página 373 - ... a glass of broken jelly, where a great variety of surfaces so differently refract the light, that the several distinct pencils of rays cannot be collected by the eye into their proper foci; wherefore the shape of an object in...
Página 5 - Could we suppose any person living on the banks of the Thames so ignorant as not to know the general word river but to be acquainted only with the particular word Thames, if he was brought to any other river, would he not readily call it a Thames?
Página 439 - may appear very plausible, and be, for a long time, very generally received in the world, and yet have no foundation in nature, nor any sort of resemblance to the truth. But it is otherwise with systems of Moral Philosophy.
Página 454 - Buccleugh under the author's care, and would make it worth his while to accept of that charge. As soon as I heard this, I called on him twice, with a view of talking with him about the matter, and of convincing him of the propriety of sending that young nobleman to...
Página 507 - ... to others, the grounds upon which his own opinions are founded ; and hence it is, that the known principles of an individual, who has approved to the public his candour, his liberality, and his judgment, are entitled to a weight and an authority, independent of the evidence which he is able, upon any particular occasion, to produce in their support.
Página 488 - Commerce, which ought naturally to be, among nations as among individuals, a bond of union and friendship, has become the most fertile source of discord and animosity.