| Hugh Murray - 1836 - 424 trang
...Speech is considered altogether a secondary and subordinate mode of communication. The idea, therefore, of making the written subservient to the spoken language,...never once to have occurred to the mind of a Chinese. The hieroglyphic quality, or that of forming actual images of the objects to be expressed, can now... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1838 - 508 trang
...Society. We must however, in fairness, make an ample extract of the writer's argument as it proceeds : " The learned authors of the historical and descriptive...words of the oral idiom, and consequently to make tbeir graphic system subservient to it, as in fact it is and ever will be. That the literati of China... | |
| 1838 - 506 trang
...and all assailed by the ridicule of the learned President of the American Philosophical Society. " The learned authors of the historical and descriptive...representative signs, to the words of the oral idiom, aml consequently to make their graphic system subservient to it, as in fact it is aml ever will be.... | |
| Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - 1838 - 628 trang
...secondary fttid subordinate mod .ofcommuaira'ion. The idea, therefore, of making the written subs'.-rvient to the spoken language, seems never once to have occurred to the mind of a Chinese. The hieroglyphic quality, or that of forming actual image« of the objects to b" expressed, can now... | |
| Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn, William Wallace (mathématicien).), Gilbert Thomas Burnett - 1843 - 506 trang
...is considered altogether a second- ary and subordinate mode of communication. The idea, therefore, of making the written subservient to the spoken language,...never once to have occurred to the mind of a Chinese. The hieroglyphic quality, or that of forming actual images of the objects to be expressed, can now... | |
| Robert Sears - 1852 - 628 trang
...Speech is considered altogether a secondary and subordinate mode of communication. The idea, therefore, of making the written subservient to the spoken language,...never once to have occurred to the mind of a Chinese. The hieroglyphic quality, or that of forming actual images of the objects to be expressed, can now... | |
| Robert Sears - 1851 - 630 trang
...Speech is considered altogether a secondary and subordinate mode of communication. The idea, therefore, of making the written subservient to the spoken language,...never once to have occurred to the mind of a Chinese. The hieroglyphic quality, or that of forming actual images of the objects to be expressed, can now... | |
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