 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 57por Sir William Hamilton - 1865 - 280 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
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...Butler (18351902) in a lecture on Thought and Language' (1890) 2:46 [of tunnelling through a sandbank] Language is to the mind precisely what the arch is...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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..."You have all heard," continued Sir William Hamilton, " of the process of tunnelling — of tunnelling through a sand-bank. In this operation it is impossible...and the power of excavation are not dependent on the words in the one case or the masonry in the other; but without these subsidiaries, neither proi Max... | |
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