| Sir William Hamilton - 1860 - 740 páginas
...another relation to these. illustration : You have all heard of the process of tunnelling, of tunnelling 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 of masonry, before we attempt the excavation... | |
| David Jayne Hill - 1877 - 328 páginas
...illustration : You have all heard of the process of tun neling through a sand-bank. In this operation it ia impossible to succeed, unless every foot, nay almost*...every inch in our progress, be secured by an arch oi masonry, before we attempt the excavation of another. Now, language is to the mind precisely what... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 738 páginas
...illustration, and the next is happier still. 'You have all heard of the process of tunnelling — of tunnelling through a sand-bank. In this operation it is impossible...of another. Now, language is to the mind precisely 1 'Preiendre que dans 1'esprit humain la notion de In chose signifies ne precede pas celle du signe,... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 362 páginas
...and the next is happier still. " You have all heard of the process of tunnelling — of tunnelling through a sand-bank. In this operation it is impossible...of another. Now, language is to the mind precisely 1 " Pre'tendre que dans 1'esprit humain la notion de la chose signified ne pre"ctMe pas celle du signe,... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1908 - 368 páginas
...even happier still. "You have all heard," says Sir William Hamilton, " of the process of tunnelling through a sandbank. In this operation it is impossible...succeed unless every foot, nay, almost every inch of our progress be secured by an arch of masonry before we attempt the excavation of another. Now language... | |
| Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1909 - 486 páginas
...still beyond. Or another illustration : You have all heard of the process of tunnelling, of tunnelling through a sand-bank. In this operation it is impossible...every inch in our progress, be secured by an arch pf masonry, before we attempt the uxcava/ tion of another. Now, language is to the mind precisely what... | |
| Samuel Butler, Henry Festing Jones - 1913 - 334 páginas
...even happier still. " You have all heard," says Sir William Hamilton, " of the process of tunnelling through a sandbank. In this operation it is impossible...succeed unless every foot, nay, almost every inch of our progress be secured by an arch of masonry before we attempted the excavation of another. Now... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1925 - 380 páginas
...even happier still. " You have all heard," says Sir William Hamilton, " of the process of tunnelling through a sandbank. In this operation it is impossible...succeed unless every foot, nay, almost every inch of our progress be secured by an arch of masonry before we attempted the excavation of another. Now... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1927 - 278 páginas
...even happier still. 'You have all heard,' says Sir William Hamilton, 'of the process of tunnelling through a sandbank. In this operation it is impossible...succeed unless every foot, nay, almost every inch of our progress be secured by an arch of masonry before we attempt the excavation of another. Now language... | |
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