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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. "
Select British Classics - Página 170
1803
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Morality and Imagination: Paradoxes of Progress

Yi-fu Tuan - 1989 - 226 páginas
...dispensed with altogether. "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. . . . The room where company meet who practice this art, is full of all things...
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Uniquely Human: The Evolution of Speech, Thought, and Selfless Behavior

Philip Lieberman - 1991 - 230 páginas
...Words whatsoever . . . 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 ... which hath only this Inconvenience attending it: that if a Man's Business be...
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Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift - 1992 - 290 páginas
...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...
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Writing and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century

Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 páginas
...the expedient 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'. Women ('in Conjunction with the Vulgar and Illiterate') offer rebellion to this...
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Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1830: Stress Points in the English Augustan Tradition

Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 páginas
...'Expedient . . . 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', shows the scientific demand for a plain style dissolving into a traffic of bare...
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The Limits of Language

Stephen David Ross - 1994 - 316 páginas
...words whatsoever; . . . 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. . . . Another great advantage proposed by this invention was that it would serve...
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Auge & Ohr: Studien zur Erforschung der Sprache am Menschen 1700-1850

Joachim Gessinger - 1994 - 824 páginas
...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...
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The English Fable: Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740

Jayne Elizabeth Lewis - 1996 - 248 páginas
...since Words are only Names for Things, it would be more convenient for all Men to carry about with them such things as were necessary to express the particular Business they are to discourse on." Thus the Laputans bear on their backs gigantic peddlers" packs crammed with the...
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ARTE: der europäische Kulturkanal : eine Fernsehsprache in vielen Sprachen

Oliver Hahn - 1997 - 578 páginas
...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 [...]. However, many of the most Leamed and Wise adhere to the new Scheme of expressing...
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Semiotics of the Media: State of the Art, Projects, and Perspectives

Winfried Nöth - 1997 - 916 páginas
...[. . .] 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". To avoid the burden of carrying things, McLuhan has proposed to use the new technologies...
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