 A country may be overrun by an armed host, but it is only conquered by the establishment of fortresses. 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...  Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic - Página 138por Sir William Hamilton - 1860 - 510 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Jos Brough - 1903 - 190 páginas
...Hamilton in some similes that have become classic. "Words are the fortresses of thought. They enable us to realise our dominion over what we have already...conquest the basis of operations for others still beyond. ... In tunnelling through a sandbank it is impossible to succeed unless every foot, nay almost every... | |
 | 1904 - 712 páginas
...by the establishment of fortresses. Words are the fortresses of thought. They enable us to realize our dominion over what we have already overrun in...conquest the basis of operations for others still beyond. Though, therefore, we allow that every movement forward in language must be determined by an antecedent... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1908 - 364 páginas
...only conquered by the establishment of fortresses. Words are the fortresses of thought. They enable us to realise our dominion over what we have already...thought ; to make every intellectual conquest the base of operations for others still beyond." " This," says Professor Max Miiller, " is a most happy... | |
 | George Hayward Joyce - 1908 - 448 páginas
...to fix our views. " Words," says Sir W. Hamilton, " are the fortresses of thought. They enable ' us to realise our dominion over what we have already ' overrun in thought." By employing the terminology of a particular school, we may find ourselves committed to the defence... | |
 | Hastings Berkeley - 1910 - 279 páginas
...by the establishment of fortresses. Words are the fortresses of thought. They enable us to utilize our dominion over what we have already overrun in...the process of tunnelling, of tunnelling through a sandbank. In this operation it is impossible to succeed unless every foot, nay, almost every inch,... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1910 - 362 páginas
...by the establishment of fortresses. Words are the fortresses of thought. They enable us to realize our dominion over what we have already overrun in...conquest the basis of operations for others still beyond. — SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, Lectures in Metaphysics and Logic. IN the mechanic arts, and in the market-place,... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1910 - 362 páginas
...the establishment of fortresses. Words are the fortresses of thought. They enable us to realize-pur dominion over what we have already overrun in thought...conquest the basis of operations for others still beyond. — SIB WILLIAM HAMILTON, Lectures in Metaphysics and Logic. IN the mechanic arts, and in the market-place,... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Henry Festing Jones - 1913 - 334 páginas
...by the establishment of fortresses. 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 base of operations for others still beyond." " This," says Professor Max Miiller, " is a most happy... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1925 - 380 páginas
...by the establishment of fortresses. 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 base of operations for others still beyond." " This," says Professor Max Muller, " is a most happy... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1927 - 278 páginas
...only conquered by the establishment of fortresses. Words are the fortresses of thought. They enable us to realise our dominion over what we have already...in thought; to make every intellectual conquest the base of operations for others still beyond.' 'This,' says Professor Max Mtiller, 'is a most happy illustration,'... | |
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