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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... mankind are naturally difpofed to give to one object the name of any other , which nearly refembles it , and thus to denominate a multitude , by what originally was intended to exprefs an indi- vidual . It is this application of the ...
... mankind are naturally difpofed to give to one object the name of any other , which nearly refembles it , and thus to denominate a multitude , by what originally was intended to exprefs an indi- vidual . It is this application of the ...
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... mankind , therefore , in the firft formation of languages , feem to have , for fome time , evaded the necef fity of nouns adjective , by varying the termi- nation of the names of fubftances , according as thefe varied in fome of their ...
... mankind , therefore , in the firft formation of languages , feem to have , for fome time , evaded the necef fity of nouns adjective , by varying the termi- nation of the names of fubftances , according as thefe varied in fome of their ...
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... mankind would probably have recourfe to , in the infancy of language , Number , confidered in general , without relation to any particular fet of objects numbered , is one of the most abstract and metaphyfical ideas , which the mind of ...
... mankind would probably have recourfe to , in the infancy of language , Number , confidered in general , without relation to any particular fet of objects numbered , is one of the most abstract and metaphyfical ideas , which the mind of ...
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... mankind would have any occafion to take notice of . These they would find it more natural to exprefs , by a variation upon every particular noun fubftantive , than by fuch general and abstract words as one , two , three , four , & c ...
... mankind would have any occafion to take notice of . These they would find it more natural to exprefs , by a variation upon every particular noun fubftantive , than by fuch general and abstract words as one , two , three , four , & c ...
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... mankind have learned by degrees to fplit and divide almoft every event into a great number of metaphyfical parts , expreffed by the different parts of fpeech , variously combined in the different members of every phrafe and fentence ...
... mankind have learned by degrees to fplit and divide almoft every event into a great number of metaphyfical parts , expreffed by the different parts of fpeech , variously combined in the different members of every phrafe and fentence ...
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