Harberous, that is, harbourous, is the old version of St. Paul's philoxenos, and a beautiful word it is. Kosmis should be rendered a gentleman in dress and address, in appearance and demeanour, a man of the world in an innocent sense. The Latin mundus has the same double force in it; only that to the rude early Romans, to have a clean pair of hands and a clean dress, was to be drest; just as we say to boys, "Put on your clean clothes!" The different meanings attached to the same word or phrase in different sentences, will, of course, be accompanied with a different feeling in the mind; this will affect the pronunciation, and hence arises a new word. We should vainly try to produce the same feeling in our minds by and he as by who; for the different use of the latter, and its feeling having now coalesced. Yet who is properly the same word and pronunciation, as ho with the digammate prefix, and as qui kai ho. Contents Contents, p.5
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