 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1894 - 604 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if...However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things ; which has only this inconvenience attending it, that... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1896 - 328 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on." And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if the women, in conjunction with the vulgarand illiterate, had not threatened to raise a rebellion, unless they might be allowed the liberty... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to I durst not say ' you ' to him, hut thou ' or ' thee,'...he commanded me, as he commonly did at such limes, . . . Another great advantage proposed by this invention was, that it would serve as a universal language... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainlr have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if...rebellion, unless they might be allowed the liberty 10 speak with their tongues, after the manner of their forefathers ; such constant irreconcilable enemies... | |
 | 1903 - 360 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if...irreconcilable enemies to science are the common people. pro jec'tors, those who form schemes or designs. hermet'ic al ly, so as to admit no air. cal cine',... | |
 | D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 360 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if...irreconcilable enemies to science are the common people. pro jec'tors, those who form schemes or designs. hermet'ic al ly, so as to admit no air. cal cine',... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1906 - 318 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on." And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if...However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things; which has only this inconvenience attending it, that... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 288 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if...speak with their tongues, after the manner of their ancestors ; such constant irreconcilable enemies to science are the common people. However, many of... | |
 | 1907 - 264 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if...illiterate, had not threatened to raise a rebellion, unlegs they might be allowed the liberty to speak with their tongues, after the manner of their forefathers;... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if...However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things; which hath only this inconvenience attending it, that,... | |
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An expedient was therefore offered, that since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary to express the particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would... 
