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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Page i
... whole of those powers in Arabic construction , which are found to affect the terminations of nouns and verbs . A synopsis of this system may be seen in the commencement of the work , and a brief explanation of its leading divisions will ...
... whole of those powers in Arabic construction , which are found to affect the terminations of nouns and verbs . A synopsis of this system may be seen in the commencement of the work , and a brief explanation of its leading divisions will ...
Page ii
... whole Analogous governors ; here then are all the verbal governors in the language reduced to ninety - eight , viz . ninety - one in the prescriptive , and seven in the analogous class , to which if we add two in the absolute , we shall ...
... whole Analogous governors ; here then are all the verbal governors in the language reduced to ninety - eight , viz . ninety - one in the prescriptive , and seven in the analogous class , to which if we add two in the absolute , we shall ...
Page iii
... whole host of fallacies and fictions , with which they perplex and embarrass the most simple subjects of literature . Undoubtedly their works discover both genius and learning , and in the minute cultivation of many sciences ...
... whole host of fallacies and fictions , with which they perplex and embarrass the most simple subjects of literature . Undoubtedly their works discover both genius and learning , and in the minute cultivation of many sciences ...
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... whole region of science . * * In order to learn any language with accuracy and facility , we must first endeavour to learn its rules , or the customary application of its words ; these in their simple state , disencumbered of all ...
... whole region of science . * * In order to learn any language with accuracy and facility , we must first endeavour to learn its rules , or the customary application of its words ; these in their simple state , disencumbered of all ...
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... whole theory of the elements of language as significant of ideas . These are some of the principal topics , which the Arabian grammarians take delight in discussing , and to which , they not improperly attach a high degree of importance ...
... whole theory of the elements of language as significant of ideas . These are some of the principal topics , which the Arabian grammarians take delight in discussing , and to which , they not improperly attach a high degree of importance ...
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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.
Page 229 - ... vile gait, a vast virago, or an ugly tit, a slug, a fat fustilugs, a...
Page 228 - Every Lover admires his Mistress, though she be 'very deformed of herself, ill-favored, wrinkled, pimpled, 'pale, red, yellow, tann'd, tallow-fac'd, have a swoln 'juglers platter face, or a thin, lean, chitty face, have 'clouds in her face, be crooked, dry, bald...
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.