 | William Henry Dawnay (Viscount Downe.) - 1857 - 182 sivua
...spake/— will ever wish to turn that tongue according to any arbitrary theory." ARCHDEACON HABE. " Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved." TRENCH On the Study of Words. Printed by SPOTTISWOODE & Co., New-street-Squai... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1858 - 326 sivua
...distant lands ; and we therefore view a nation's poetry (to adopt a simile used by Professor Trench) as the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been preserved, and which, having arrested the lightning-flashes of genius, has sailed laden with its precious... | |
 | 1859 - 684 sivua
...ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. IK Cfcoa farts —f Erf Cfcoo. "Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future, conquests." — COLERIDGE. "Out, idle words, servants to shallow fools '."—SHAKESPEARE. LECTURE Y. ON THE RISE OF NEW WORDS.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 sivua
...centuries1i they have attained to and won. " Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests." 7. The mighty moral instincts100 which have been working in the popular40 mind have found therein their... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 sivua
...in that new word a new region of thought to be henceforward in some sort the common heritage of all. Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have beea safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1860 - 264 sivua
...RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, DD DEAN OF WESTMINSTER " Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at onco contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future, conquests.' TWBHTY-FU8T AUERICAN FBoM TOT NINTH ENOUSU EDITIOH XNLABOED AHD EEVI8ED NEW YORK WJ WIDDLETOK BITOOXB8OR... | |
 | Samuel Chenery Damon - 1861 - 82 sivua
...! Our visit may not have benefited you, but it did us good. You are doing a good and noble work. If language is " the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been embedded and preserved," you are embedding heavenly and divine truths in the languages of Micronesia,... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1863 - 400 sivua
...in that new word a new region of thought to be henceforward in some sort the common heritage of all. Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1863 - 264 sivua
...RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, DD BEAN OF WESTMIN8TIB " Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future, conquests.' TWENTT-yotmTH AMERICAN FROM THE NINTH ENGLISH EDITION ENLARGED AND REVISED fc NEW YORK WJ WIDDLETOtf... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 772 sivua
...passage, which I found written by his hand in a copy of the first edition of Joaii of Are. and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests. Animadverte, says Hobbes, quam sit ab improprietate verborum pronum hominibus prolabi in errores cirea... | |
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests. 
