Blair Collection > Vestigia celtica
(31)
Download files
Complete book:
Individual page:
Thumbnail gallery: Grid view | List view
27
farther flint we call yon one. But to him
this, that, and yon flints are still the flint
here beside him, the flint there before him,
the flint farther away, which is beyond
him. The local relation is either the one
relation of his conceptions, or the one rela-
tion whose practical importance to him
deserves a name. And down to this day
the language he spoke, through all its
changes, makes no distinction between its
idea of the local proximity of objects and
the more complex idea of their relative
importance. In the illustrations just given,
I have purposely introduced the English
words before, beside, and beyond. These
words, we know, were themselves at one
time used in a sense exclusively local.
But before has now, in great measure, lost
its primitive signiflcation of locality, and is
mainly used to express relations of time ;
beside, in the altered form of besides, is
\ mostly used to express relations of coin-
\ parative excess, save in the ominous, but
1 significant, case of a man being beside him-
I self ; while beyond, like its Breton equiva-
farther flint we call yon one. But to him
this, that, and yon flints are still the flint
here beside him, the flint there before him,
the flint farther away, which is beyond
him. The local relation is either the one
relation of his conceptions, or the one rela-
tion whose practical importance to him
deserves a name. And down to this day
the language he spoke, through all its
changes, makes no distinction between its
idea of the local proximity of objects and
the more complex idea of their relative
importance. In the illustrations just given,
I have purposely introduced the English
words before, beside, and beyond. These
words, we know, were themselves at one
time used in a sense exclusively local.
But before has now, in great measure, lost
its primitive signiflcation of locality, and is
mainly used to express relations of time ;
beside, in the altered form of besides, is
\ mostly used to express relations of coin-
\ parative excess, save in the ominous, but
1 significant, case of a man being beside him-
I self ; while beyond, like its Breton equiva-
Set display mode to: Large image | Transcription
Images and transcriptions on this page, including medium image downloads, may be used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence unless otherwise stated.
Early Gaelic Book Collections > Blair Collection > Vestigia celtica > (31) |
---|
Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/75800756 |
---|
Description | Celtic footprints in philology ethics and religion. |
---|---|
Shelfmark | Blair.1 |
Additional NLS resources: | |
Attribution and copyright: |
|
More information |
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. |
---|
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. |
---|