 | John Horne Tooke - 1798 - 566 pagina’s
...mention the mere ornamental parts of gilding, varnilh, 8cc. Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged...productive of error when we neglect to obferve their complication. Into what blunders, and confe'quently into what difputes and difficulties, might not... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1798 - 554 pagina’s
...mention the mere ornamental parts of gilding, varnifh, &:c. • Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged...productive of error when we neglect to obferve their complication. Into what blunders, and confequently into what difputes and difficulties, might not the... | |
 | 1807 - 748 pagina’s
...the raeré prßajneataj part of gild, ing, varniib, &c. ' ' Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury . And though we might be dragged...it would be with much difficulty, very heavily and tcdiouily ." P. 24. From this p:ifiage the fpcaker, who carries on the dialogue with Mr. HorneTooke,... | |
 | 1807 - 746 pagina’s
...mere ornamental part of gilding, varnifli, &c. " Aib'rfviationsiat the wheels of language, the lulngs of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without...with much difficulty; very heavily and tedioufly." P. 24. From this paffage the fpeaker, who carries on the dialogue with Mr. Home Tooke, and who is announced... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1829 - 550 pagina’s
...mention the mere ornamental parts of gilding, varnish, &c. Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged...it would be with much difficulty, very heavily and tediously. There is nothino- more admirable nor more useful O than the invention of signs : at the... | |
 | Charles Jobson Lyon - 1832 - 144 pagina’s
...awkwardness and ambiguity it sometimes occasions. " Abbreviations," says Tooke, " are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury, and though we might be dragged along without them, it would be with difficulty, very heavily and tediously." To be convinced of the truth of this, we have only to examine... | |
 | Sir Edward Johnson - 1842 - 622 pagina’s
...mention the mere ornamental parts of " gilding, varnish, &c. "Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of " Mercury, and though we might be dragged...it would be with much difficulty, very heavily, and " tediously. " There is nothing more admirable nor more useful than the " invention of signs. At the... | |
 | sir Edward Johnson - 1842 - 586 pagina’s
...tediously. " There is nothing more admirable nor more useful than the " invention of signs. At the same time there is nothing more " productive of error when we neglect to observe their com" plication. Into what blunders, and consequently into what " disputes and difficulties... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1860 - 812 pagina’s
...mere ornamental parts of gilding, varnish, &c. Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the vrings of Mercury. And, though we might be dragged along...it would be with much difficulty, very heavily and tediously. There is nothing more admirable nor more useful than the invention of signs : at the same... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1863 - 338 pagina’s
...ellipses or abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might drag along without them, it would be with much difficulty, very heavily and tediously.'— H. Tookc. ON TRANSPOSITION. Transposition consists in changing the order of words or... | |
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Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of " Mercury, and though we might be dragged along without "them, it would be with much difficulty, very heavily, and 
