Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... OBJECTS AND FORCES , · POPULAR AND TECHNICAL LANGUAGE , Concrete substantives . - Documentary words with verbs of say- ing . Familiar personification of vóuos and other legal terms , — of λóyos , —of philosophical and political terms ...
... OBJECTS AND FORCES , · POPULAR AND TECHNICAL LANGUAGE , Concrete substantives . - Documentary words with verbs of say- ing . Familiar personification of vóuos and other legal terms , — of λóyos , —of philosophical and political terms ...
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... objects or phenomena in which the force of nature seems to act , as Thuk . 4 , 3 , 1 χειμὼν ἐπιγενόμενος κατήνεγκε τὰς ναῦς ἐς τὴν Πύλον . ( 2 ) Phrases and forms of expression which belong to popular or to technical language , i . e ...
... objects or phenomena in which the force of nature seems to act , as Thuk . 4 , 3 , 1 χειμὼν ἐπιγενόμενος κατήνεγκε τὰς ναῦς ἐς τὴν Πύλον . ( 2 ) Phrases and forms of expression which belong to popular or to technical language , i . e ...
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... objects which belong to the sphere of every - day life . Cases of the full personification of abstracts remain , and also the general mass of less vivid uses . These two classes , the more and the less forcible , are intimately ...
... objects which belong to the sphere of every - day life . Cases of the full personification of abstracts remain , and also the general mass of less vivid uses . These two classes , the more and the less forcible , are intimately ...
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... OBJECTS AND FORCES . Natural phenomena , such as the earth , the sea , the rivers , the winds and the like , were ... objects were viewed as efficient causes and active forces , it was as customary to place them as subjects in Greek as ...
... OBJECTS AND FORCES . Natural phenomena , such as the earth , the sea , the rivers , the winds and the like , were ... objects were viewed as efficient causes and active forces , it was as customary to place them as subjects in Greek as ...
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Robert Somerville Radford. natural objects conceived as divine powers or as natural agents ; quite different is the poetical species of personification which attributes human actions and passions to inanimate objects in nature ( see ...
Robert Somerville Radford. natural objects conceived as divine powers or as natural agents ; quite different is the poetical species of personification which attributes human actions and passions to inanimate objects in nature ( see ...
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