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Pagina 48
... words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has given them . Language is the dress of thought ; and as the noblest mien , or most graceful action , would be degraded ...
... words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has given them . Language is the dress of thought ; and as the noblest mien , or most graceful action , would be degraded ...
Pagina 59
... words , thus artfully opposed , are to be understood simply on one side of the comparison , and metaphorically on the other ; and if there be any language which does not express intellectual operations by material images , into that ...
... words , thus artfully opposed , are to be understood simply on one side of the comparison , and metaphorically on the other ; and if there be any language which does not express intellectual operations by material images , into that ...
Pagina 132
... words is , I think , frequently Italian ; perhaps sometimes combined with other tongues . Of him , at last , may be said what Jonson says of Spenser , that he wrote no language , but has formed what Butler calls a Babylonish Dialect ...
... words is , I think , frequently Italian ; perhaps sometimes combined with other tongues . Of him , at last , may be said what Jonson says of Spenser , that he wrote no language , but has formed what Butler calls a Babylonish Dialect ...
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