Word: verb
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...MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "The Paradigm of the Romance Verb." Mr. E. H. Wilkins. "The Beginnings of Byronism in Spain." Dr. P. H. Churchman, of Clark College. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "The Paradigm of the Romance Verb." Mr. E. H. Wilkins. "The Beginnings of Byronism in Spain." Dr. P. H. Churchman, of Clark College. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...acknowledge that, in the past; courses in Greek and in Roman literature have been sacrificed to men who intended to teach. Interest has been centred not on thought or method of expression, but on classification of verb forms or irregularities of syntax. A knowledge of the latter is no doubt necessary for appreciation: we must note the peculiar subjunctive or optative to get the peculiar shade of meaning; but we do not gain anything by regarding the peculiar form as a curiosity to be catalogued, as the entomologist catalogues a rare insect. Greek and Latin are not word-puzzles...
...treat of those of his actions, where ideals are paramount and where facts must be made to correspond. The distinction between the descriptive sciences and ethics is well shown by calling them the natural and the moral sciences respectively. The moral sciences can not be described by the "Verb "is"; "ought" expresses them effectively. Ethical problems can not be solved by an appeal to physical, psychological, or historical facts. At the same time it is true that the moral sciences without the facts of the descriptive as a basis are empty; the descriptive without the ideals of the normative...