 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 sivua
...unfolds thought. Richard Chenevix Trench, 1851, 'Introductory Lecture', in On the Study of Words 2:137 Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. Richard Chenevix Trench, 1851, 'Introductory Lecture', in On the Study of Words... | |
 | Charles V. Turner - 2002 - 250 sivua
...potential for vocabulary development when he said, "Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests."4 A sign in a New York restaurant said, "Customers who find our waitresses rude ought to... | |
 | Lyle Campbell - 2004 - 478 sivua
...Chapter 1 1 . 224 8 Internal Reconstruction Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) 8. 1 Introduction Internal reconstruction is like the comparative method... | |
 | Emanuel Alvarez-Sandoval - 2005 - 124 sivua
...our knowledge. Samuel Taylor Coleridge said, "Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquest." And George Santiyana says that even "the wisest mind has something to learn." What do you... | |
 | Christine Ferguson - 2006 - 204 sivua
...like those pillars, fixed and immoveable, but ever itself advancing with the progress of these . . . Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. (On the Study of Words 25) To study a language was thus to see the history... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1904 - 596 sivua
...paraphrased it without acknowledgment in his text-book on " The Study of Words," where he wrote : " Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved." Nature poets and prose painters, continued the novelist, warming to the subject,... | |
 | Popular educator - 1860 - 424 sivua
...that new word a new region of thought to be henceforward, in some sort, ил 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... | |
 | 376 sivua
...declares to be the first duty of a poet. For language is the armoury of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests. Animadvert*, quam sit ab improprietate verborum pronum hominibus prolabi in errores circa ipsas res!... | |
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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. 
