Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... language was framed ; but the same tendency may be daily observed in children . Children and savages use only nouns or names of things , which they convert into verbs , and apply to analogous mental acts . It 2. But this origin of all ...
... language was framed ; but the same tendency may be daily observed in children . Children and savages use only nouns or names of things , which they convert into verbs , and apply to analogous mental acts . It 2. But this origin of all ...
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... language as the FATHER . It is easily seen that there is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies , but that they are constant , and pervade nature . These are not the dreams of a few poets , here and there , but man is an ...
... language as the FATHER . It is easily seen that there is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies , but that they are constant , and pervade nature . These are not the dreams of a few poets , here and there , but man is an ...
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... language becomes more picturesque , until its infancy , when it is all poetry ; or all spiritual facts are represented by natural And as this is the symbols . The same symbols 34 LANGUAGE .
... language becomes more picturesque , until its infancy , when it is all poetry ; or all spiritual facts are represented by natural And as this is the symbols . The same symbols 34 LANGUAGE .
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... languages . It has moreover been observed , that the idioms of all languages approach each other in passages of the greatest eloquence and power . first language , so is it the last . This immediate dependence of language upon nature ...
... languages . It has moreover been observed , that the idioms of all languages approach each other in passages of the greatest eloquence and power . first language , so is it the last . This immediate dependence of language upon nature ...
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... language created by the primary writers of the country , those , namely , who hold primarily on nature . But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things ; so that pictur- esque language is at once a ...
... language created by the primary writers of the country , those , namely , who hold primarily on nature . But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things ; so that pictur- esque language is at once a ...
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