A treatise on the cause and cure of hesitation of speech or stammering / Henry McCormac.

  • M'Cormac, Henry, 1800-1886.
Date:
1828
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Credit: A treatise on the cause and cure of hesitation of speech or stammering / Henry McCormac. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    view of all ( pan) around him. In viewing the Diorama, he is placed, as it were, at the extremity of a scene, and thus he has a view across or through that scene. Hence, I pre- sume, the inventor of the term com- pounded it of the Greek preposition, dia, through, and orama; though from the circumstance of there heing two paintings under the same roof, (in the building in Regent's Park) it has been supposed the term is formed of hs, dis, twice, and orama. But it is to be observed, that if several paint-- ings of the same kind were exhibited, each painting would constitute a Di- - orama. To the first meaning, how- ever, it must be confined when only. one scene is presented, as in an ingc- • nious toy made at Brussels. Cosm-orama. The exhibition thus nam- ed consists of several distinct paintings ■ (seen through a magnifying glass) of I different places in each quarter of the l world. Kotr/ios, cosmos, signifies • the world. PART II. A-byss, s. from a, a, not, without, and (ivtriros, bussos,* a bottom. A bot- tomless pit. Alpha-bet, s. from aX(Qx, alpha, and /3»ra, beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. Alpha is used in the scriptures to signify the first. Amphi-theatre, s. from aftfi, amphi, both, (on both sides, double,) and §iu.?gof, thcatios, or thSa- tron, a theatre. A building of a cir- cular or oval form, having rows of seats one above another. Apo-calypse, s. from wrmccXv^ii, apo- calupsis, uto, upo, horn, removed from, and xaXms, kalpis, a covering ; zaXuiTTa, kalupio, I cover;—taking the cover from, is revealing, thence Apocalypse is the name given to the last book in the New Testament, Otherwise called The Book of Re- velation. Apo-crypha, from arro, apo, from, and x.(>v(piu, kruphia, hidden, concealed : (xjuw™, hrupto, I hide). The books of the Apocrypha were excluded from the list of canonical books during the first four centuries of the church— therefore hidden from the public.— It is generally agreed, that these books were never admitted into the Hebrew canon; they were all com- posed after the sacred catalogue was closed : there are none of them to be found in Hebrew, all of them are in the Greek, except the 2d Book of Esdras, which is only in Latin. The Books of the Apocrypha are admitted to be read (in the Church of England) for ' an example of life and instruc- tion of manners,' according to the language of our 6th article, which is an expression adopted from Jerome. —Reeve's Bible. Areo-pagus, apuoirayas, areiopagos, compounded of aouoc, areivs, and «■ yos, pagos, The hill of Mars, where was held the supreme council of Athens [«££i»j, areios, genitive case of AM;, Ares, Mars, -xayc;, pagos, ft hill or mound]. The court of Areo- pagus was the most sacred and vener- able tribunal of all Greece. See Acts, chap. xvii. v. 19. In this court all causes were heard in the dark, in or- der that the senators might not be in- fluenced by seeing either plaintiff or defendant. * From buthos, which also signifies a bot- tom, we have taken the prefix—but—to de- note the bottom or end of a thing, as when we speak of the butend of a gun. Eu-phony, tv, en, well, good. An agreeable sound, a graceful flow of words; the contrary to haishness. Mathematics, s. from va\u%, mathema, a science. The science which contem- plates whatever is capable of being numbered or measured. Mathematics are commonly distinguished into Speculative and Practical, Pure and Mixed. Spe- culative Mathematics simply considers the properties of things ; and Practical Mathematics, applies the knowledge of those properties to some uses in life. Pure Mathematics is that branch which considers quantity abstractedly, and without any relation to matter or bodies, as Arithmetic and Geometry. Mixed 3Iathematics, considers quantity as subsisting in material being ; for instance, length in a pole, depth in a river, height in a tower, &c. t