Charmides
   Part
 1 PreS |           general idea of the two languages, and reduce the one to the
 2 PreS |        lucid and exact of the two languages. In some respects it may
 3 PreS |         than of ideas. But modern languages have rubbed off this adversative
 4 PreS |          characterizes all modern languages. We cannot have two ‘buts’
 5 PreS |        much more marked in modern languages than in ancient. Both sentences
 6 PreS |            The tendency of modern languages is to become more correct
 7 PreS |          the standard. But modern languages, while they have become
 8 PreS |     metaphors differ in different languages, and the translator will


Cratylus
   Part
 9 Intro|         aware of the truth, that ‘languages are not made, but grow.’
10 Intro|         of intelligence, and that languages belong to States and not
11 Intro|          the influence of foreign languages, the desire of euphony,
12 Intro|         of Greek words from other languages, or of the permutations
13 Intro|           in our own and in other languages; for even in foreign words
14 Intro|          heard with surprise that languages are the common work of whole
15 Intro|         by a mechanical process. ‘Languages are not made but grow,’
16 Intro|      relation of Greek to foreign languages, which he is led to consider,
17 Intro|           derivation from foreign languages; they must be resolved into
18 Intro|    accidental, derived from other languages, and may have no relation
19 Intro|          He is not aware that the languages of the world are organic
20 Intro|     Realism. He is aware too that languages exist in various degrees
21 Intro|          of their usages existing languages might become clearer and
22 Intro|          we follow the history of languages, we observe that they are
23 Intro|          fallacy of resolving the languages which we know into their
24 Intro|     speech of man, and of all the languages in the world, as the expressions
25 Intro|           the power and wonder of languages, and is very natural to
26 Intro|    language of which all existent languages may be supposed to be the
27 Intro|           abstract tree, but only languages in various stages of growth,
28 Intro|           the distinction between languages which have had a free and
29 Intro|           of their organisms, and languages which have been stunted
30 Intro|   distinction between synthetical languages like Greek and Latin, which
31 Intro|        inflexions, and analytical languages like English or French,
32 Intro|            Innumerable as are the languages and dialects of mankind,
33 Intro|         has been very great. More languages have been compared; the
34 Intro|         lost in the distance. For languages have a natural but not a
35 Intro|        because the remains of the languages with which we are acquainted
36 Intro|           of speech. Although all languages have some common principles,
37 Intro|        some members of a group of languages b becomes p, or d, t, or
38 Intro|           t, or ch, k; or why two languages resemble one another in
39 Intro|           the greater families of languages stand to each other. The
40 Intro|           us. We no longer divide languages into synthetical and analytical,
41 Intro|         Logic. Nor do we conceive languages any more than civilisations
42 Intro|        are invariable, but no two languages are alike, no two words
43 Intro|      likewise in vegetable, so in languages, the process of change is
44 Intro|       wanting to describe ancient languages in the terms of a modern
45 Intro|    language is almost confined to languages which are fully developed.
46 Intro|       ancient and modern European languages. In the child learning to
47 Intro|           manufacture. Artificial languages, such as that of Bishop
48 Intro|        remembered that in all the languages which have a literature,
49 Intro|       reason the motive powers of languages seem to have ceased when
50 Intro|          grew, and in the form of languages came to be distributed over
51 Intro|          to have a place in great languages and literatures.~We can
52 Intro| considered the differentiation of languages, i.e. the manner in which
53 Intro|         the invention of writing, languages were only dialects. So they
54 Intro|        usual to depreciate modern languages when compared with ancient.
55 Intro|           seems to be that modern languages, if through the loss of
56 Intro|      distributed. The best modern languages, for example English or
57 Intro|       impossible. Nor will modern languages be easily broken up by amalgamation
58 Intro|      advantage over the classical languages in point of accuracy. The
59 Intro|        them in ancient and modern languages we are not able to judge.~
60 Intro|           are superior to ancient languages is freedom from tautology.
61 Text |     Clearly then the professor of languages should be able to give a


Phaedrus
   Part
62 Intro|           into the great European languages, never recovered.~This monotony