 | 1852 - 870 pages
...aspire ; But then we shall ; and that is my desire.' " Language is truly, as Mr. Trench calb it, " the amber in •which a thousand precious and subtle...thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. In the second lecture, on " the Morality in words," the subject is thus admirably opened : " But has... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1852 - 252 pages
...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 em- i bedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless... | |
 | 1853 - 538 pages
...itself advancing with the progress of these, and even itself a great element ofthat advance. He calls it the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. He reserves the dictum which pronounces words the wise man's counters and the fool's money; for in... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1854 - 368 pages
...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...thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus arrested and fixed, might have been as bright, but would also have been as quickly passing and perishing,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1854 - 252 pages
...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...embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning1 flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but... | |
 | Sylvester Judd - 1854 - 308 pages
...nation, yea, of many nations, and of all which through centuries they have attained to and won. It is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely imbedded and preserved." Words or language, I say, mould the character. If a language is rich in history,... | |
 | William Henry Dawnay (Viscount Downe.) - 1857 - 182 pages
...spake/— will ever wish to turn that tongue according to any arbitrary theory." ARCHDEACON HABE. " Language is the amber in which a thousand precious...thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved." TRENCH On the Study of Words. Printed by SPOTTISWOODE & Co., New-street-Squai c, London. PREFACE. SOME... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1858 - 326 pages
...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... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...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,... | |
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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 fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would also... 
