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With a nod of approbation to Lord Monboddo's theory, our author observes, that man has even the rudiments of "a caudal extremity" in the os coccygis. That the instinct of animals and the mind of man are the results of nothing but material organization is an obvious corollary from this doctrine.
At Lord Monboddo's, after the conversation upon the decrease of learning in England, his Lordship mentioned Hermes, by Mr. Harris of Salisbury , as the work of a living authour, for whom he had a great respect. Dr.
It was, I believe, Lord Monboddo who first observed that inarticulate sound, music in its most primitive form, is the earliest form of utterance, and is prior to language. Lord Monboddo's researches into the origin and progress of language were valued so highly by Herder that they were at his instance translated into German.
Hardly any man brings greater variety of learning to bear upon his point . MONBODDO. 'He is one of the greatest lights of your church. JOHNSON. 'Why, we are not so sure of his being very friendly to us . He blazes, if you will, but that is not always the steadiest light. Lowth is another bishop who has risen by his learning. Dr. Johnson examined young Arthur, Lord Monboddo's son, in Latin.
This walking about his room naked was, perhaps, part of Lord Monboddo's system that was founded 'on the superiority of the savage life. Ante, ii. 147.
'Sir, said I, 'it was with your arguments against Sir William Forbes: but it was much that I could wield the arms of Goliah. He said, our judges had not gone deep in the question concerning literary property. I mentioned Lord Monboddo's opinion, that if a man could get a work by heart, he might print it, as by such an act the mind is exercised.
Hardly any man brings greater variety of learning to bear upon his point. MONBODDO. 'He is one of the greatest lights of your church. JOHNSON. 'Why, we are not so sure of his being very friendly to us. He blazes, if you will, but that is not always the steadiest light. Lowth is another bishop who has risen by his learning. Dr Johnson examined young Arthur, Lord Monboddo's son, in Latin.
Johnson sat in his own room, where I saw lying before him a volume of Lord Bacon's works, The Decay of Christian Piety, Monboddo's Origin of Language, and Sterne's Sermons . He asked me to-day how it happened that we were so little together: I told him, my Journal took up much time.
Cullen, to keep up the gratification of mysterious disquisition, with the grave address for which he is remarkable in his companionable as in his professional hours, talked, in a very entertaining manner, of people walking and conversing in their sleep. I am very sorry I have no note of this. We talked of the Ouran-Outang, and of Lord Monboddo's thinking that he might be taught to speak. Dr.
But Sir Adolphus, who had a very sweet temper, changed the discourse, grew playful, laughed at Lord Monboddo's notion of men having tails, and called him a Judge, a posteriori, which amused Dr Johnson; and thus hostilities were prevented. At supper we had Dr Cullen, his son the advocate, Dr Adam Fergusson, and Mr Crosbie, advocate. Witchcraft was introduced.
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