 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.  Select British Classics - Pagina 1701803Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | British essayists - 1802 - 260 pagina’s
...statue of Sir John Barnard, we must trudge back again, and he must wait for my meaning till we get to the Royal Exchange. We should be like the sages...discourse on, " I have often beheld (says he) two of those sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs, like pedlars among us : who, when they meet in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 484 pagina’s
...statue of Sir John Barnard, we must trudge back again, and he must wait for my meaning till we get to the Royal Exchange. We should be like the sages of Laputa, who (as Gulliver tells us) having sub. stituted things for words, used to carry about them such things as were necessary to express the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 264 pagina’s
...statue of Sir John Barnard, we must trudge back again, and he must wait for my meaning till we get to the Royal Exchange. We should be like the sages...on, ." I have often beheld (says he) two of those sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs, like pedlars among us: who, when they meet in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 268 pagina’s
...statue of Sir John Barnard, we must trudge back again, and he must wait for my meaning till we get to the Royal Exchange. We should be like the sages...them such things as were necessary to express the particularbusiness they were to discourse on, " I have often beheld (says he) two of those sages almost... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 358 pagina’s
...statue of Sir John Barnard, we must trudge back again, and he must wait for my meaning till we get to the Royal Exchange. We should be like the sages...discourse on. ' I have often beheld (says he) two of those sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs, like pedlars among us : who, when they meet in... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 274 pagina’s
...statue of Sir John Barnard, we must trudge back again, and he must wait for my meaning till we get to the Royal Exchange. We should be like the sages...discourse on. 'I have often beheld,' says he, ' two of these sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs, like pedlars among us; who, when they meet... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 854 pagina’s
...must wait for my meaning till we get to the Royal Exchange. We should be like the sages of Lapxita, who, as Gulliver tells us, having substituted things...on : "I have often beheld," says he, " two of those sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs, like pedlars among us : who, when they meet in... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pagina’s
...therefore offered, that since words ar« 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 certainly have taken place, to the great ease as WPÜ... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pagina’s
...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 certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pagina’s
...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 tins invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well... | |
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