 | George John Romanes - 1888 - 488 oldal
...starting-point for our advance to another beyond. . . . Words are the fortresses of thought. They enable us to make every intellectual conquest the basis of operations for others still beyond." Moreover, thought and language act and react upon one another ; so that, to adopt a happy metaphor... | |
 | John Venn - 1889 - 628 oldal
...country may be overrun by an armed host, but it is only conquered by the establishment of fortresses. Words are the fortresses of thought. They enable us...the basis of operations for others still beyond." (Log. i. 138.) And, as a consequence of this, anything like finality in respect of our definitions... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1889 - 700 oldal
...the establishment of for' tresses. Words are the fortresses of thought. They ' enable us to realise our dominion over what we have ' already overrun in...Or another illustration : You have all heard of the pro' cess of tunnelling—of tunnelling through a sand-bank. ' In this operation it is impossible to... | |
 | Joseph Landon - 1889 - 496 oldal
...by the establishment of fortresses. Words are the fortresses of thought. They enable us to realise our dominion over what we have already over-run in...the basis of operations for others still beyond.' It is thus a necessity in good teaching to attend to both ideas and words, thoughts and expression.... | |
 | Gabriel Compayré - 1890 - 330 oldal
...country may be overrun by an armed host, but it is only conquered by the establishment of fortresses. Words are the fortresses of thought. They enable us...: You have all heard of the process of tunnelling through a sand-bank. In this operation it is impossible to succeed, unless every foot, nay, almost... | |
 | 1893 - 636 oldal
...be overcome by an armed host, but it is only conquered by the establishment of fortresses. Words are fortresses of thought : they enable us to realize...conquest the basis of operations for others still beyond Though, therefore, we allow that every movement forward in language must be determined by an antecedent... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1895 - 488 oldal
...overrun by an armed host, but it is only oon,|wrod by the establishment of fortresses. Words arc tho fortresses of thought. They enable us to realize our...what we have already overrun in thought, — . to nwke every intellectual conquest the basis of operations for others still beyond. Or another illustration... | |
 | Emma Marie Caillard - 1895 - 292 oldal
...in the vista opened before us. " Words, we arc told, arc the fortresses of thought. They enable us to make every intellectual conquest the basis of operations for others still beyond. Moreover, thought and language act and react upon one another ; so that . . . the growth of thought... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1898 - 408 oldal
...country may be overrun by an armed host, but it is only conquered by the establishment of fortresses. Words are the fortresses of thought. They enable us...illustration : You have all heard of the process of tunneling through a sand-bank. In this operation it is impossible to succeed unless every foot —... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1891 - 764 oldal
...retained. Sir William Hamilton illustrates this point as follows; "You have all heard of the process of tunnelling through a sandbank. In this operation it is impossible to succeed imkss every foot — nay every inch — in our progress be secured by an arch of masonry, before we... | |
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A country may be overrun by an armed host, but it is only conquered by the establishment of fortresses. "Words are the fortresses of thought. They enable us to realize our dominion over what we have already overrun in thought — to make every intellectual... 
