The Miʼut Ạmil, and Shurḥoo Miʼut Ạmil;: Two Elementary Treatises on Arabic Syntax:P. Pereira at the Hindoostanee Press, 1814 - 279 pages |
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... present volume , and of which an English translation is now for the first time submitted to the public , the MIUT AMIL or that comprising the text , contains a brief but comprehensive view of the first division of Arabic Syntax , or of ...
... present volume , and of which an English translation is now for the first time submitted to the public , the MIUT AMIL or that comprising the text , contains a brief but comprehensive view of the first division of Arabic Syntax , or of ...
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... present system of Arabic grammar , at least to the technical and speculative part of it , as distinct from the prac- tical , my own opinion is , that it is chiefly , if not entirely derived from * Hermes p . 3 . + Ausonius Ep . 126 ...
... present system of Arabic grammar , at least to the technical and speculative part of it , as distinct from the prac- tical , my own opinion is , that it is chiefly , if not entirely derived from * Hermes p . 3 . + Ausonius Ep . 126 ...
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... present system of arithmetical numeration , as well as the first notions of Algebra which are found in Diophantus . * He gives them the credit of several important discoveries on trigonometrical calculation , and many ingenious ...
... present system of arithmetical numeration , as well as the first notions of Algebra which are found in Diophantus . * He gives them the credit of several important discoveries on trigonometrical calculation , and many ingenious ...
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... work , I am under considerable obligations . * At present employed by the Reverend T. Thomason , on a translation of the New Testament into Arabic . My constant guide and companion in almost every stage of PREFACE . xxiii.
... work , I am under considerable obligations . * At present employed by the Reverend T. Thomason , on a translation of the New Testament into Arabic . My constant guide and companion in almost every stage of PREFACE . xxiii.
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... present work * The grammatical treatise termed ko lo ï ̧ is a Commentary , contains agreeably to the literal meaning of the title , one hundred governing powers : these are divided into co - ordinate and subordinate classes , with ...
... present work * The grammatical treatise termed ko lo ï ̧ is a Commentary , contains agreeably to the literal meaning of the title , one hundred governing powers : these are divided into co - ordinate and subordinate classes , with ...
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Page 194 - First, modes I call such complex ideas, which however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependences on, or affections of substances; such are the ideas signified by the words triangle, gratitude, murder, &c.
Page 214 - Behold this mirror with a sigh; The locks upon thy brow are few, And, like the rest, they're withering too ! " Whether decline has thinned my hair, I'm sure I neither know nor care ; But this I know, and this I feel, As onward to the tomb I steal, That still as death approaches nearer. The joys of life are sweeter, dearer ; And had I but an hour to live, That little hour to bliss I'd giw ! ODE VIII.
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Page 207 - For action, being the great business 'of mankind and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant, it is no wonder, that the several MODES of thinking and motion should be taken notice of, the ideas of them observed, and laid up in the memory and have names assigned to them; without which, laws could be but ill made, or vice and disorder repressed. Nor could any communication be...
Page 207 - For action being the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant, it is no wonder that the several modes of thinking and motion should be taken notice of, the ideas of them observed, and laid up in the memory, and have names assigned to them ; without which, laws could be but ill made, or vice and disorder repressed. Nor could any communication be well had...
Page 228 - ... a witch's beard, her breath stink all over the room, her nose drop winter and summer, with a Bavarian poke under her chin, a sharp chin, lave-eared, with a long crane's neck, which stands awry too, pendulis mammis, "her dugs like two double jugs...
Page 196 - , An accidental mode, or an accident, is such a mode as is not necessary to the being of a thing, for the subject may be without it, and yet remain of the same nature that it was before ; or, it is that mode which may be separated or abolished from its subject...
Page v - Merion's faithful Care. With proper Instruments they take the Road, Axes to cut, and Ropes to sling the Load. First march the heavy Mules, securely slow, O'er Hills, o'er Dales, o'er Crags, o'er Rocks, they go : Jumping high o'er the Shrubs of the rough Ground, Rattle the clatt'ring Cars, and the shockt Axles bound.