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Excerpt from English Synonymes, Classified and Explained: With Practical Exercises, Designed for Schools and Private Tuition
Accuracy of expression will naturally lead to accuracy of thought, .for the practice of carefully examining the shades of difference between words is not only useful in regard to wri ting, but also exercises a most salutary in?uence upon the thinking power. N Ow there are grounds to fear that language is, by many, considered as something existing of itself, and independent, rather than as connected with its proper origin, or as to be referred to a higher principle.. In studying lan guage we should never lose sight of the fact, that it is the visible and audible expression of the mind, and that, there fore, all the phenomena of language are to be referred for their source to the intellectual powers. It is, then, only by investigating the modes in which N ature works in the human mind, and by patiently observing her operations, that we can expect to arrive at an accurate knowledge of the philosophy of expression. In these researches, the study of metaphysics is our only way to arrive at any satisfactory result, for from no other source can we acquire any solid information on this sub ject, nor upon any other principles can we safely proceed in our investigations. Though many scholars have displayed wonderful ingenuity and sagacity in philological research, Which cannot fail'to command the admiration of all who make this subject their study; no one has yet set forth a system of language referable to the human mind, and applicable to human expression no one has yet tested the significations of words, their differences, their various classes'of differences, and the causes of those differences, in such a manner as to reduce them to a system orhas laid down principles to serve as a basis upon which to ground a general and comprehensive classification of our language.
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