Citations:sign


 * 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
 * This sign should have been first; but first or last, it is also false; for knowledge, great knowledge, may be obtained in the mysteries of the gospel, and yet no work of grace in the soul. [1 Cor. 13] Yea, if a man have all knowledge, he may yet be nothing, and so consequently be no child of God.
 * For there is a knowledge that is not attended with doing: He that knoweth his masters will, and doeth it not. A man may know like an angel, and yet be no Christian, therefore your sign of it is not true.
 * They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued like other men. [Ps. 73:4,5] These troubles and distresses that you go through in these waters are no sign that God hath forsaken you; but are sent to try you, whether you will call to mind that which heretofore you have received of his goodness, and live upon him in your distresses.

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 * 1692, Thomas Bennet, Short Introduction of Grammar ... of the Latine Tongue:
 * A Noun substantive and a Noun adjective may be thus distinguished, that a substantive may have the sign a or the before it; as, puer, a boy, the boy; but an adjective cannot, as, bonus, good.
 * 1753, Charles Davies, Busby's English Introduction to the Latin Tongue Examined, page 11:
 * A Pronoun is a Noun implying a Person, but not admitting the Sign a or the before it.
 * 2008, Eero Tarasti, Robert S. Hatten, A Sounding of Signs: Modalities and Moments in Music, Culture, and Philosophy : Essays in Honor of Eero Tarasti on His 60th Anniversary:
 * And some linguistic signs, like “the”, “and” or “with”, may lack apparent objects, though they are clearly meaningful and interpretable.


 * 2011, Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction, John Wiley & Sons (ISBN 9781118306291), page 113:
 * What this theory fails to see is that the &#39;living voice&#39; is in fact quite as material as print; and that since spoken signs, like written ones, work only by a process of difference and division, speaking could be just as much said to be a form of writing ...