 A language will often be wiser, not merely than the vulgar, but even than the wisest of those who speak it. Being like amber in its efficacy to circulate the electric spirit of truth, it is also like amber in embalming and preserving the relics of ancient...  On the Study of Words - Sivu 3tekijä(t) Richard Chenevix Trench - 1852 - 236 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Samuel Bailey - 1855 - 846 sivua
...Trench, page 1. Another writer of reputation speaks in the same strain : " A language," he says, " will often be wiser, not merely than the vulgar, but...wisest of those who speak it. Being like amber in its eificacy to circulate the electric spirit of truth,* it is also like amber in embalming and preserving... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1859 - 252 sivua
...anything, the profit which they would find in so doing. Nor, with the certainty that I am anticipating much in my little volume, can I refrain from quoting...who speak it. Being like amber in its efficacy to circu late the electric spirit of truth, it is also like amber in embalming and preserving the relics... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 sivua
...like the thrilling wires, transfuse The telegraphic look ! Mrt. LANGUAGE— the Depository of Truth. A language will often be wiser, not merely than the...the wisest of those who speak it. Being like amber iu its efficacy to circulate the electric spirit of truth, it is also like amber in embalming and preserving... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1863 - 288 sivua
...Trench, page 1. Another writer of reputation speaks in the same strain : " A language," he says, " will often be wiser, not merely than the vulgar, but...it is also like amber in embalming and preserving * Unfortunately for this similitude amber, although an electric, is a non-conductor of electricity... | |
 | 1865 - 976 sivua
...LANGUAGE— THE DEPOSITOBY or TIUiTH. — A language will often bo wiser, not ruftvly than the vulgar, hut even than the wisest of those who speak it. Being...like amber in its efficacy to circulate the electric spiiit of truth, it is also like nmber in embalming and preserving the relics uf ancient wisdom, although... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1866 - 260 sivua
...thing, the profit which they would find in so doing. Nor, with the certainty that I am anticipating much in my little volume, can I refrain from quoting...wisest of those who speak it. Being like amber in its efiicacy to circulate the electric spirit of truth, it is also like amber in embalming and preserving... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1868 - 264 sivua
...thing, the profit which they would find in so doing. Nor, with the certainty that I am anticipating much in my little volume, can I refrain from quoting...seldom puzzled to decipher its contents. Sometimes it leeks up truths which were once well known, but which, in the course of ages, have passed out of sight... | |
 | George Duffield - 1868 - 224 sivua
...namely, Eph. v. 18, that we cannot withhold it from the ordinary reader or the exegetical scholar : " A language will often be wiser, not merely than the...up truths which were once well known, but which, in course of ages, have passed out of sight and been forgotten." In the present case we are filled with... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - 1869 - 456 sivua
...HI. THE NATURE AND OPERATIONS OF CONSCIENCE. SOME philologist has remarked that "a language is often wiser, not merely than the vulgar, but even than the...efficacy to circulate the electric spirit of truth, it is like amber in embalming the relics of ancient wisdom." Granting that language is a divine gift to men,... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - 1870 - 458 sivua
...III. THE NATURE AND OPERATIONS OF CONSCIENCE. SOME philologist has remarked that "a language is often wiser, not merely than the vulgar, but even than the...efficacy to circulate the electric spirit of truth, it is like amber in embalming the relics of ancient wisdom." Granting that language is a divine gift to men,... | |
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