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we regard as, for the moment, the most
prominent or important. And how does
the Gael attain this object of expressing
relative degrees of demonstrative emphasis ?
By the natural device of what may be called
the Verbal Perspective of Sentence-build-
ing : i.e., by identifying the Proinineitce of
an object with its local Proximity to tlie
speaker. In grouping his word-picture the
Gael does, as If by primitive natural in-
stinct, what the painter does by the teaching
of his divine art ; he groups his materials
according to his sense of what, to himself
as the centre, should be their relative local
proximity.
Now, is It too much to hazard here the
conjecture that in this the Gael continues,
down to the present day, to do as we may
well suppose men to have done in their
first rude attempts to construct a sentence?
What, for the time, is most Important to
me I keep nearest me ; It may be that
there I may the better protect It ; it may
be that there it may the better protect, or
otherwise serve me. When this preference
we regard as, for the moment, the most
prominent or important. And how does
the Gael attain this object of expressing
relative degrees of demonstrative emphasis ?
By the natural device of what may be called
the Verbal Perspective of Sentence-build-
ing : i.e., by identifying the Proinineitce of
an object with its local Proximity to tlie
speaker. In grouping his word-picture the
Gael does, as If by primitive natural in-
stinct, what the painter does by the teaching
of his divine art ; he groups his materials
according to his sense of what, to himself
as the centre, should be their relative local
proximity.
Now, is It too much to hazard here the
conjecture that in this the Gael continues,
down to the present day, to do as we may
well suppose men to have done in their
first rude attempts to construct a sentence?
What, for the time, is most Important to
me I keep nearest me ; It may be that
there I may the better protect It ; it may
be that there it may the better protect, or
otherwise serve me. When this preference
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Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/75800657 |
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Description | Celtic footprints in philology ethics and religion. |
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Shelfmark | Blair.1 |
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Description | A selection of books from a collection of more than 500 titles, mostly on religious and literary topics. Also includes some material dealing with other Celtic languages and societies. Collection created towards the end of the 19th century by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray. |
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Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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