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Common terms and phrases
abstract ideas absurd acquire action adjective admiral admiral's book alteration Anglo-Saxon word animal answer argument assertion become believe brute captains cause common dead duck derived English word etymology existence fact feel flag give Greek hear Horne Tooke Horne Tooke's horse human Icelandic important words instance intelligible knowledge language Latin language Latin word Locke Lord Brougham manifestly manner matter merely moral nature necessary never noun noun substantive operation opinion organs paraplegia past participle perfectly perform philosopher phrase Plato possess prepositions pronoun pronounced prove Purley question reason remember Samuel Johnson self-love sensation sense sensible objects sentence signification smell sound speak stand suppose talk taste tell thincan thought true truth understand understood unintelligible verb whole William Davenant word better word idea word mind word signifying word thing write written xiphos yataghan
Popular passages
Page 88 - These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
Page 89 - When the understanding is once stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways before mentioned ; nor can any force of the understanding destroy those that are there...
Page 165 - Admirable grammarian ! But in suspending his voice was the sense suspended likewise ? Did no expression of attitude or countenance fill up the chasm ? — Was the eye silent ? Did you narrowly look ? — I look'd only at the stop-watch, my Lord.
Page 127 - The business of the mind, as far as it concerns Language, appears to me to be very simple. It extends no further than to receive impressions, that is, to have Sensations or Feelings. What are called its operations, are merely the operations of Language.
Page xxvi - If the brain be an electric pile, constantly in action, it may be conceived to discharge itself at regular intervals, when the tension of the electricity developed reaches a certain point, along the nerves which communicate with the heart, and thus to excite the pulsations of that organ.
Page 30 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Page 19 - This design will likewise contribute much to the clearing of some of our modern differences in religion ; by unmasking many wild errors, that shelter themselves under the disguise of affected phrases ; which• being philosophically unfolded, and rendered according to the genuine and natural importance of words, will appear to be inconsistencies and contradictions. And several of those pretended mysterious...
Page 91 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page vii - To direct the reader's attention to the value of the science of words, their use and abuse, and the incalculable advantages attached to the habit of using them appropriately, and with a distinct knowledge of their primary, derivative, and metaphorical senses.
Page 165 - ... should agree together in number, case, and gender, he made a breach thus stopping as if the point wanted settling; and betwixt the nominative case, which your lordship knows should govern the verb, he suspended his voice in the epilogue a dozen times, three seconds and three-fifths, by a stop-watch, my lord, each time.