 | Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 էջ
...of the object immediately excites it anew in its original perfection, and Imagination can re-present it almost as adequately and vividly as the reality....language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tuniiel. The power of thinking and the power of excavation are not dependent on the word in the one... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 էջ
...by reciprocal attraction." Dissertations on Uuid, pp. 852, 853. t Lectures, iii. 138-140. " tresses. Words are the fortresses of thought. They " enable..." of thinking and the power of excavation are not depend" ent on the word in the one case, on the mason-work in " the other ; but without these subsidiaries,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 էջ
...others still beyond. " Or another illustration : You have all heard of the pro" cess of tunnelling—of tunnelling through a sand-bank. " In this operation...of " thinking and the power of excavation are not depend" ent on the word in the one case, on the mason-work " in the other; but without these subsidiaries,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 664 էջ
...operations for others still beyond. " Or another illustration : You have all heard of the pro" cess of tunnelling — of tunnelling through a sand-bank....of " thinking and the power of excavation are not depen" dent on the word in the one case, on the mason -work "in the other; but without these subsidiaries,... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1877 - 328 էջ
...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....the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power of excavating are not dependent on the word in the one case, on the mason- work in the other ; oal without... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1881 - 372 էջ
...what we have already overrun in thought." And, again, alluding to tunneling through a sand-bank: — "Now, language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel." MACAULAY with his unexampled power of illustration declares that "the highest intellects, like the... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1881 - 372 էջ
...what we have already overrun in thought." And, again, alluding to tunneling through a sand-bank: — "Now, language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel." MACAULAY with his unexampled power of illustration declares that " the highest intellects, like the... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 738 էջ
...selon les regies tracees par I'abb6 de Condillac.' — Eenan, £tude d'histoire religieuse, p. 1 1 . what the arch is to the tunnel. The power of thinking...and the power of excavation are not dependent on the words in the one case, or the mason-work in the other ; but without these subsidiaries, neither process... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 722 էջ
...tracees par I'abb6 de Condillac.' — Renan, Etude d'hifitoire religieuse, pn 2 Examination, p. 379. what the arch is to the tunnel. The power of thinking...and the power of excavation are not dependent on the words in the one case, or the mason-work in the other ; but without these subsidiaries, neither process... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1889 - 700 էջ
...others still beyond. ' Or another illustration : You have all heard of the pro' cess of tunnelling—of tunnelling through a sand-bank. ' In this operation...of ' thinking and the power of excavation are not depen' dent on the word in the one case, on the mason-work ' in the other; but without these subsidiaries,... | |
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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.... 
