 | Sir William Hamilton - 1860 - 746 páginas
...anguage a n- operations for others still beyond. Or another dispensable, and ita , " * relation to these. illustration : You have all heard of the process of...language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power of excavatio"n are not dependent on the word in the one... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1860 - 506 páginas
...illustration :—You have all heard of the process of tunnelling, of tunnelling through a sand- LECT. bank In this operation it is impossible to succeed, —...language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power of excavation are not dependent on the word in the one... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1860 - 740 páginas
...through a sand-bank. In this operation it is impossible to succeed, unless every foot, nay nlraost every inch in our progress, be secured by an arch...language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power of excavation are not dependent on the word in the one... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 páginas
...to the exclusion of others perhaps equally prominent to the eye. Hence, a Name must be given to it, which will be, of course, a Common Name for all the...language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power of excavation are not dependent on the word in the one... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1864 - 472 páginas
...of the object immediately excites it anew in its original perfection, and Imagination can ^-present it almost as adequately and vividly as the reality....language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power of excavation are not dependent on the word in the one... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 368 páginas
...stability to our intellectual progress, — to establish each step in our advance as a new starting point for our advance to another beyond. A country may be...language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power of excavation are not dependent on the word in the one... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 páginas
...by reciprocal attraction." Dissertations on Uuid, pp. 852, 853. t Lectures, iii. 138-140. " tresses. Words are the fortresses of thought. They " enable...is to the mind " precisely what the arch is to the tunnel. The power " of thinking and the power of excavation are not depend" ent on the word in the... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 372 páginas
...but it is only conquered by the establishment of fortresses. vWords are the fortresses of thought. J They enable us to realize our dominion over what we...language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power of excavation are not dependent on the word in the one... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 páginas
...others still beyond. " Or another illustration : You have all heard of the pro" cess of tunnelling—of tunnelling through a sand-bank. " In this operation...is to the mind " precisely what the arch is to the tunnel. The power of " thinking and the power of excavation are not depend" ent on the word in the... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1865 - 314 páginas
...still beyond. Or another illustration : You have all heard of the process of tunneling, of tunneling through a sandbank. In this operation it is impossible...language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power of excavation are not dependent on the word in the one... | |
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Words are the fortresses of thought. They enable us to realize our dominion over what we have already overrun in thought, — to make every intellectual conquest the basis of operations for others still beyond. Or another illustration : You have all heard... 
