 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, almost every inch, in our progress be secured by an arch of masonry, before we attempt the excavation...  Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic - Página 139por Sir William Hamilton - 1860 - 510 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | James Sully - 1892 - 560 páginas
...difficult, more comprehensive, and more abstract idea, 'animal.' In this way we may say, with Hamilton : " Language is to the mind precisely what the arch is...power of thinking and the power of excavation are not «Vpr««friit on die void in the one case, on the •ason-vork in the other; bat without these subsidiaries... | |
 | James Sully - 1892 - 540 páginas
...difficult, more comprehensive, and more abstract idea, ' animal '. In this way we may say, with Hamilton : " Language is to the mind precisely what the arch is...to the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power 1 According to logicians a general name denotes certain things (members of a class) and connotes certain... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1909 - 494 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1896 - 380 páginas
...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...excavation are not dependent on the word in the one case or the mason-work in the other; but without these subsidiaries, neither process could be carried on... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1898 - 408 páginas
...beyond. Or another illustration : You have all heard of the process of tunneling through a sand-bank. In this operation it is impossible to succeed unless...excavation are not dependent on the word in the one case or the mason-work in the other ; but without these subsidiaries, neither process could bo carried on... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1891 - 764 páginas
...tunnelling through a sandbank. In this operation it is impossible to succeed imkss every foot — nay every inch — in our progress be secured by an arch...Now language is to the mind precisely what the arch it to the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power of excavation are not dependent on the word in... | |
 | Jos Brough - 1903 - 188 páginas
...intellectual conquest the basis of operations for others still beyond. ... In tunnelling through a sandbank it is impossible to succeed unless every foot, nay...the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel." If any critic of our assertions is so stubborn as to demand proof, not only that there is a Sense of... | |
 | Laura Brackenbury - 1907 - 138 páginas
...enable us to reinstate past experiences, they conserve for us the results of our analytic activity. " 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... | |
 | Laura Brackenbury - 1907 - 136 páginas
...enable us to reinstate 68 past experiences, they conserve for us the results of our analytic activity. " 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... | |
 | Felix Clay - 1908 - 334 páginas
...sey. possible by means of the verbally embodied results of the lower — " Language is to the mind what the arch is to the tunnel. The power of thinking...excavation are not dependent on the word in the one case, or the mason's work in the other ; but without these subsidiaries neither process could be carried... | |
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