 | James Harris - Grammar - 1751 - 484 pages
...Being, mould know for that reafon its Greek or Latin Name. « THE Truth is, that every Medium thro' which we exhibit any thing to another's Contemplation,...from Natural Attributes, and then it is an IMITATION j or elfe from Accidents quite arbitrary^ and then it is a SYMBOL (b). » Now, (b) Ai«ipiV» ft n... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1771 - 516 pages
...no means follows, that he who knows any Being, mould know for that reafon its Greek or Latin Name. f THE Truth is, that every Medium, through which we...Accidents quite arbitrary, and then it is a SYMBOL (H). Now, (b) Aiatp^n <B TO OMOIflMA n ITMBOAOT, xaficVon TO /Atv ofjiotuft* TW (puVtv aurijy TB TirjaJ'^iaTOf... | |
 | Thomas Astle - Printing - 1784 - 344 pages
...characters andfymbolic or arbitrary marks. " Every medium," fays Mr. HARRIS, in his Hermes, p. 331, "through •" which we exhibit any thing to another's...natural attributes, and then it is an IMITATION ; or *' cl!e .from accidents quite arbitrary, and then it is a SYMBOL." The former, we may truly fay, derives... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1806 - 528 pages
...Imitations. But it by no means follows, that he who knows any Being, , should know for that reason its Greek, • or Latin Name. THE Truth is, that every...Natural Attributes, and then it is an IMITATION; or else from Accidents quite arbitrary, and then it is a SYMBOL.^ Now, (») AixQiftt Si T» OMOIOMA r*... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1806 - 504 pages
...its Imitations. But it by no means follows, that he who. knows any Being, should know for that reason its Greek or Latin Name. THE Truth is, that every...exhibit any thing to another's Contemplation, is either delived from Natural Attributes, and then it is an IMITATION; or else from A ccidents quite arbitrary,... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1806 - 500 pages
...its Imitations. But it by no means follows, that he who knows any Being, should know for that reason its Greek or Latin Name. \ THE Truth is, that every Medium through Avhich we exhibit any thing to another's Contemplation, is either derived from Natural Attributes,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1811 - 562 pages
...objects of sense. Tliis, he says, brought to his recollection an observation by the author of Hermes. ' Every medium through which we exhibit any thing to...natural attributes, and then it is an •imitation, or from arbitrary accidents, and then it is a fymbol — thus, the words mountain and river, which do... | |
 | Joshua Marshman - Chinese language - 1814 - 666 pages
...the author of the " Philosophical Inquiry concerning Language and Universal Grammar," the truth be, " that every medium through which we exhibit any thing...contemplation, is either derived from natural attributes (or objects) and is then an Imitation ; or else from accidents quite arbitrary, and is then a Symbol... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 688 pages
...characters and symbolic or arbitrary marks. " Every medium," says Mr. Harris, in his Hermes, p. 331, 332, " through which we exhibit any thing to another's contemplation,...natural attributes, and then it is an Imitation ; or else from accidents quite arbitrary, and then Taautus, or Thoth, was the Mercury, on which name and... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 712 pages
...Harris, in his Hermes, p. 331, 332, " through which we exhihit any thing to another-s content. plation, is either derived from natural attributes, and then it is an Imitation ; or else from accidents quite arhitrary, and then Taautus, or Thoth, was the Mercury, on which name and... | |
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The truth is, that every medium through which we exhibit any thing to another's contemplation, is either derived from natural attributes, and then it is an imitation; or else from accidents quite arbitrary, and then it is a symbol b. 
