Essays on the origin of society, etc / Interspersed with illustrations from the Greek and Galic languages.

  • James Grant of Corrimony
Date:
1785
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Credit: Essays on the origin of society, etc / Interspersed with illustrations from the Greek and Galic languages. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ir feems to be an admitted propofition, that _the ftructure ‘of primitive language is highly pics ' turef{que and figurative. Thefe qualities are afcribed, by the elegant author * of the Critical Differtation on the Poems of Offian, to two caufes; to the want of proper names for objects, and to the influence of imagination and paflion over the form of expreflion. His nice difcernment and refined tafte have pointed out the excellen-~ cies of the Caledonian bard in the ufe of thofe figures of {peech which are natural; in the age of wild freedom, to the glowing fancy of an ani- mated poet. | In confidering the prefent {αρ]εξί an obfervation occurs, that jt feems to be aimatural difpofition in the mind of primeval Man, to apply the name in- vented for one object to another between which and that object an intimate relation is obferved to fubfiftt. It would appear, that this transference * Dr. Blair. of
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