 As long as the philologer confines himself to discussions of grammar and of etymology, his labours, while they are peculiarly calculated to gratify the natural and liberal curiosity of men of erudition, may often furnish important data for illustrating...  The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine and Review - Pàgina 31810Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pàgines
...important data for illustrating the progress of laws, of arts, and of manners; — for clearing tip obscure passages in ancient writers; — or for tracing...steady lights than their own, they are more likely to bewiloer than to direct in the study of the Mind, they may yet (d! 1 shall attempt to exemplify in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1811 - 622 pàgines
...natural and liberal curiosity of men of emdition, may often furnish important data tor illustrating the progress of laws, of arts, and of manners; for...mankind, in ages of which we have no historical records.' But, he indignantly adds, ' when the speculations of the mere scholar or glossarist presume to usurp,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 pàgines
...natural and liberal curiosity of men of erudition, may often furnish important data for illustrating the progress of laws, of arts, and of manners ; —...own, they are more likely to bewilder than to direct us in the study of the Mind, they may yet (as I shall attempt to exemplify in the Second Part of this... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 594 pàgines
...natural and liberal curiosity of men of erudition, may often furnish important data for illustrating the progress of laws, of arts, and of manners ; for...clearing up obscure passages in ancient writers ; or tor tracing the migrations of mankind, in ages of which we have no historical records.' But, he indignantly... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 pàgines
...natural and liberal curiosity of men of erudition, may often furnish important data for illustrating the progress of laws, of arts, and of manners;— for clearing up obscure passages in ancient writers;—or for tracing the migrations of mankind, in ages of which we have no historical records.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 608 pàgines
...furnish their betters with important data for illustrating the progress of laws, of arts, and of manners, or for tracing the migrations of mankind in ages of which we have no historical records. It does not seem to have occurred to him that it is very possible for the profound philologist, and... | |
 | 1841 - 846 pàgines
...natural and liberal curiosity of men of erudition, may often furnish important data for illustrating the progress of laws, of arts, and of manners ; for...than to direct in the study of the mind, they may yet supply many useful materials towards a history of its natural progress ; more particularly towards... | |
 | 1841 - 736 pàgines
...natural and liberal curiosity of men of erudition, may often furnish important data for illustrating the progress of laws, of arts, and of manners ; for...the migrations of mankind in ages of which we have DO historical records. And although, without the guidance of more steady lights than their own, they... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 542 pàgines
...natural and liberal curiosity of men of erudition, may often furnish important data for illustrating the progress of laws, of arts, and of manners; —...own, they are more likely to bewilder than to direct us in the study of the Mind, they may yet (as I shall attempt to exemplify in the Second Part of this... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1859 - 446 pàgines
...furnish their betters with important data for illustrating the progress of laws, of arts, and of manners, or for tracing the migrations of mankind in ages of which we have no historical records. It does not seem to have occurred to him that it is very possible for the profound philologist, and... | |
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