A Treatise on Languages, Their Origin, Structure, and Connection; and on the Best Method of Learning and Teaching Them

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Página 61 - AND seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Página 28 - To be, or not to be, that is the question ; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them...
Página 156 - A Grammar of the Arabic Language, in which the Rules are illustrated by Authorities from the best Writers ; principally adapted for the Service of the Hon. East India Company.
Página 36 - I was loving, Thou wast loving, He was loving; We were loving, Ye or you were loving, They were loving.
Página 151 - Bible noticed in pp. 116 — 118. of the present volume, is perhaps the greatest and most perfect undertaking of the kind hitherto performed by human industry and learning.
Página 71 - humeri, quid ferre recusent," must be made the measure of every one's understanding, who has a desire uot only to perform well, but to keep up the vigour of his faculties ; and not to baulk his understanding by what is too hard for it The mind, by being engaged in a task beyond its strength, like the body, strained by lifting at a weight...
Página ix - ... fellow-feeling and compassion, the most amiable part of our nature, and deservedly called humanity, if all the members were exempt both from weakness and disorder ? Again, Charity is more excellent than the gifts before mentioned, because it is more beneficial to the possessor himself. A man may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and yet be no better than sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
Página 151 - A GRAMMAR of the HEBREW LANGUAGE; comprised in a Series of Lectures, compiled from the best Authorities, and augmented with much Original Matter, drawn principally from Oriental Sources ; designed for the Use of Students in the Universities. By the Rev. S. LEE, BD ; DD of the University of Halle; Honorary Member of the Asiatic Society of Paris; Honorary Associate and...
Página 71 - ... itself, and then it may go on roundly. Every abstruse problem, every intricate question, will not baffle, discourage, or break it. But though putting the mind unprepared upon an unusual stress, that may discourage or damp it for the future, ought to be avoided, yet this must not run it, by an over-great shyness of difficulties, into a lazy sauntering about ordinary and obvious things that demand no thought or application.
Página 29 - Maecenas, that no man which to himself lot, Whether reason may have given, whether lot may have thrown against, with that, Contented may live ; may praise different things those following.

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