This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... it is impossible but that the one must have copied from the other, or both from some third nation. I present my best respects to my Lady Jones.... XLIX. LORD MONBODDO TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR Edinburgh, 4 Jany. 1792. My Good Lord, --... Since the last conversation I had with your Lordship, I have ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... it is impossible but that the one must have copied from the other, or both from some third nation. I present my best respects to my Lady Jones.... XLIX. LORD MONBODDO TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR Edinburgh, 4 Jany. 1792. My Good Lord, --... Since the last conversation I had with your Lordship, I have thought much upon Aristotle's Logic, which I perfectly agree with you is the greatest piece of Art that ever was executed by man, and at the same time the most useful. To be convinced of this we need only consider what a wonderful piece of Art such a language as the Greek is. Yet this language the women and children in Athens spoke by imitation, and habit merely; but without being able to render a reason why one word or phrase was right and another wrong. In the same manner the vulgar among us reason without being able to give any account why one argument is conclusive and another not. Now what a work it was at first to make a complete grammar of such a language as the Greek, and to form an art of it. This was done first by analyzing the material part of the language into its elemental sounds, that is the Alphabet: and then, by similarly analyzing the formal part of it--that is the words considered as significant--into what are called the parts of speech, and showing how these parts were varied by the three great arts of language, viz. derivation, composition, and flection, by which that greatest art of language was accomplished. Lord Thurlow was Lord Chancellor of England up to June 15, 1792.--Ed. I mean the saving the excessive multiplication of words, so that the language might be comprehended in the memory, and readily applied to use, which would not have been possible if all things were to be marked by names having no relation to one another....
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Good. Red cloth, illustrated, clean unmarked text, good copy, small owner's signature on the front flyleaf, staining to some page-edges and to the covers (appears to be black ink? ), minor wear to the tips of the book's covers, no dust jacket.
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Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library. 6 x 9. 314 page hardcover before publishers ad section with frontis portrait engraving of Lord Monboddo. A biographical sketch plus forty-seven letters. Ex-library copy, but with no exterior markings and only a bookplate on inside front cover and a library name stamp on title page. Full burgundy cloth exterior with title on spine in gold. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean.
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