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" process of tunnelling, of tunnelling through a sand-bank. " In this operation it is impossible to succeed, unless " every foot, nay almost every inch in our progress, be " secured by an arch of masonry, before we attempt the " excavation of another.... "
The Logic of Sir William Hamilton, Bart - Página 57
por Sir William Hamilton - 1865 - 280 páginas
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Paragraph-writing: A Rhetoric for Colleges

Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1909 - 486 páginas
...almost 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...power of excavation are not dependent on the word in one case, on the mason-work in the other : but without these subsidiaries, neither process could be...
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The Humour of Homer: And Other Essays

Samuel Butler, Henry Festing Jones - 1913 - 334 páginas
...every foot, nay, almost every inch of our progress be secured by an arch of masonry before we attempted the excavation of another. Now language is to the...and the power of excavation are not dependent on the words in the one case or on the mason-work in the other ; but without these subsidiaries neither could...
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State Control of Instruction: A Study of Centralization in Public Education

August William Weber - 1914 - 156 páginas
...other less useful form of movable type." — Ladd: Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory, p. 457. 2 "Language is to the mind precisely what the arch is...power of excavation are not dependent on the word in one case or on the mason work in the other; hut without these subsidiaries, neither process could be...
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State Control of Instruction: A Study of Centralization in Public Education

August William Weber - 1914 - 150 páginas
...other less useful form of movable type." — Ladd: Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory, p. 457. 2 "Language is to the mind precisely what the arch is...power of excavation are not dependent on the word in one case or on the mason work in the other; but without these subsidiaries, neither process could be...
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The Mind at Work: A Handbook of Applied Psychology

Geoffrey Rhodes - 1914 - 252 páginas
...stage without language. It seems a case of complementary action. " Language," says Sir W. Hamilton, " is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel....power of excavation are not dependent on the word in one case, or the mason-work in the other; but without these subsidiaries neither process could be carried...
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The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: Collected essays

Samuel Butler - 1925 - 380 páginas
...every foot, nay, almost every inch of our progress be secured by an arch of masonry before we attempted the excavation of another. Now language is to the...and the power of excavation are not dependent on the words in the one case or on the mason- work in the other; but without these subsidiaries neither could...
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The Pedagogical Seminary, Volumen11

1904 - 558 páginas
...has ascended into the higher forms of thought. Or, to change the figure with Sir William Hamilton, "Language is to the mind precisely what the arch is...the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power of excavating are not dependent on the word in the one case nor on the mason work in the other; but without...
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Mental Life: An Introduction to Psychology

Beatrice Edgell - 1926 - 310 páginas
...well believe that the relations now expressed would never have been recognized by thought analysis. " Language is to the mind precisely what the arch is...power of excavation are not dependent on the word in one case or the mason work in the other ; but without these subsidiaries neither process could be carried...
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Selected Essays

Samuel Butler - 1927 - 278 páginas
...sandbank. In this operation it is impossible to succeed unless every foot, nay, almost every inch of our progress be secured by an arch of masonry before...and the power of excavation are not dependent on the words in the one case or on the mason-work in the other; but without these subsidiaries neither could...
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The Crisis of Philosophy: Emerson in the Twenty-first Century

Michael H. McCarthy - 1990 - 410 páginas
...process of tunnelling through a sand bank... it is impossible to succeed unless... almost every inch of our progress be secured by an arch of masonry before...the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel... .Though.. .every movement forward in language must be determined by an antecedent movement forward...
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