"You are not indeed entirely immortal, yet you shall never be dissolved, nor become subject to the fatality of death." Apparently therefore Plato seems to say, that the world is naturally dissoluble, mortal and corruptible, yet will not be corrupted. But Aristotle opposing the apparent meaning of such an assertion says, it is impossible that any thing which is of its own nature corruptible, should not some time or other be corrupted. ■→More
Category: Philology
Study and knowledge of a natural language, as Polish or English, with a view to the language history, literature, and grammar; language neural and psychological reality became part the domain in the 20th century.
Taylor’s Dissertation, Chapter 2
Plato, therefore, gave the name of motion to the life of the soul, in consequence of its being evolved, and being neither in every respect partible, nor remaining purely impartible, denominating also such a life motion, from its declination from an impartible nature, and asserting that the essence of the soul is self-movable, as being essentialized according to such a life. ■→More
Taylor’s Dissertation, Chapter 1
For capacious indeed must that mind have been which embraced the vast orb of existence, and left nothing unexplored in the heavens or the earth, and penetrating that genius which arrived at the luminous boundaries of human knowledge, and rendered them accessible to others. ■→More
Wycliffe Gloss, Abashed: scared, afraid
Joshua 2:9. I have known it is for you the Lord takes this land; for your ghastliness has fallen onto us, and all the inhabitants of the land have been scared. Wycliffe Gloss→
Wycliffe Gloss, Abece: alphabet
1 Kings, Prologue: But the psalms thirty-sixth, and the hundred tenth, and the hundred eleventh, and the hundred eighteenth psalm, and the hundred forty-fourth, though they were written in diverse meter, nonetheless they were suited with an alphabet in the same style. Wycliffe Gloss→
Wycliffe Gloss, Abide: await
Leviticus 19:13. You will not make false allegations against your neighbor, nor will you force him down. The pay of your hired man will not await with you until morning. More→
Wycliffe Gloss, Aboute-waiter: attendant
Psalms, 30:7. You hate attendants to vanity of vanities. Wycliffe Gloss→
Wycliffe Gloss, Abreggen: reduce
Ecclesiasticus 28:10. Abstain from strife, and you shall reduce sin. More→
Wycliffe Gloss, Acorden: agree
Exodus 39:17-19 . In truth, they placed the rings on each side of the breast plate, where two golden chains should hang, set in with hooks in the edges of the shoulder cloak. The elements in the front and in the back agreed so, that the cloak and the breast piece could be drawn together straight to the girdle, coupled strong with the rings, to which a buckle of hyacinth joined, lest they might unbind and slide down and apart, as the Lord commanded Moses. Wycliffe Gloss→
Wycliffe Gloss, Acquenched: perished
Deeds of Apostles, Prologue: To him, not without merit, the power to write the deeds of the apostles was given in ministry, as God was in Godful, and the sons of the lost and perished had made a prayer of the apostles, that through the lot of God's appointment the number of apostles should be fulfilled, and so Paul should give fulfillment to the apostles' deeds. Wycliffe Gloss→
Wycliffe Gloss, Actour: minder
Galatians 4:3. Say I, as long as the heir is a little child, he does not differ from a subordinate, when he is a lord of all, but he is under tutors and minders, until the time determined by his father. Wycliffe Gloss→
Wycliffe Gloss, Acumblid, Aclumsid: inept
Jeremiah, 6:24. We have heard the laud for them, and inept have been our hands, tribulation has taken us, we are sore as the one laboring with a child. Wycliffe Gloss→
Wycliffe Gloss, Agrisen: to shudder at
Job, 19:17. My wife shuddered at my breath, and I prayed for the sons of my lap. Wycliffe Gloss→
Wycliffe Gloss, Algat: anyone, anyhow
Genesis, 33:15. Esau answered, I beseech you, may anyone of the people who are with me live your way. Wycliffe Gloss→
Philology
The Greek philos and logos together have been to tell, love of mind and language. There is no requirement for a Sentimentalist flair: love is an elegant shape of a word, and minds never are fond of affective disorders. Regarding an idea ugly as a mind without natural language — love is dainty. More→