 | 1860 - 444 sivua
...the power of naming ; for man is not a mere speaking machine ; God did not teach him words, as one of us teaches a parrot, from without, but gave him a capacity, and then evolved the capacity which he gave." Man invented names, but did not originate the idea of naming.... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1851 - 172 sivua
...ready-made to his hands. He did not thus begin the world with names, but with the power of naming. Here, as in everything else that concerns the primitive...and you will observe that there it is not God who gave the first names to the creatures, but Adam — Adam, however, at the direct suggestion of his... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1852 - 278 sivua
...the power of naming ; for man is not a mere speaking machine ; God did not teach him words, as one of us teaches a parrot, from without ; but gave him a...truest lights are to be gotten from the study of the first three chapters of Genesis ; and you will observe that there it is not God who imposed the first... | |
 | Henry St. John Bullen - 1853 - 318 sivua
...the power of naming : for man is not a mere speaking machine. God did not teach him words, as one of us teaches a parrot, from without ; but gave him a capacity, and then evoked that -capacity which he gave. Here, as in every thing else that concerns the primitive constitution,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1854 - 252 sivua
...the power of naming ; for man is not a mere speaking machine ; God did not teach him words, as one of us teaches a parrot, from without ; but gave him a...truest lights are to be gotten from the study of the first three chapters of Genesis ; and you will observe that there it is not God who imposed the first... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 252 sivua
...the power of naming; for man is not a mere speaking machine ; God did not teach him words, as one of us teaches a parrot, from without; but gave him a...truest lights are to be gotten from the study of the first three chapters of Genesis ; and you will observe that there it is not God who imposed the first... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1855 - 810 sivua
...the power of naming : for man is not a mere speaking machine ; God did not teach him words, as one of us teaches a parrot, from without ; but gave him a capacity, and then evoked the capacity which Ho gave. Here, as in everything else that concerns the primitive constitution, the great original institutes,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 sivua
...capacity which he gave. 4. Here, as in everything else that concerns the primitive constitution,40 the great original institutes of humanity, our best...truest lights are to be gotten from the study of the first throe chapters" of Genesis. You will observe that there it is not God who imposed the first names... | |
 | Julia Addison - 1857 - 684 sivua
...the power of naming, for man is not a mere speaking machine ; God did not teach him words, as one of us teaches a parrot, from without, but gave him a...capacity, and then evoked the capacity which he gave By referring to Genesis, you will see that it was not God who imposed the first name on the creatures,... | |
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... the first furnished with a full-formed vocabulary of words, and as it were with his first dictionary and first grammar readymade to his hands. He did not thus begin the world with names, but with the power of naming ; for man is not a mere speaking... 
