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... signals , touch , tele- Language . graphy or symbols . The language of words , however , is usually employed to express thought , and as it is produced by the mind , we may expect the acts of the mind to be reproduced in speech 2.
... signals , touch , tele- Language . graphy or symbols . The language of words , however , is usually employed to express thought , and as it is produced by the mind , we may expect the acts of the mind to be reproduced in speech 2.
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... signals , touch , tele- Language . graphy or symbols . The language of words , however , is usually employed to express thought , and as it is produced by the mind , we may expect the acts of the mind to be reproduced in speech.
... signals , touch , tele- Language . graphy or symbols . The language of words , however , is usually employed to express thought , and as it is produced by the mind , we may expect the acts of the mind to be reproduced in speech.
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... produces ideas of different kinds , and these appear in different words , which have certain peculiarities . Thus , the mind perceives the object " horse , " and gets that idea ; then it analyses the idea " horse , " and separates the ...
... produces ideas of different kinds , and these appear in different words , which have certain peculiarities . Thus , the mind perceives the object " horse , " and gets that idea ; then it analyses the idea " horse , " and separates the ...
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... produced by the formative force of affinities or tendencies in thought , more or less difficult of detection . By working upon such ele- ments as are here given , the limits of position and transposition of words may be studied , the ...
... produced by the formative force of affinities or tendencies in thought , more or less difficult of detection . By working upon such ele- ments as are here given , the limits of position and transposition of words may be studied , the ...
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... produce m m pw mn ทะ good society . If subject to be3 to engage to pro- vide only luxuries necessaries must to be deficient proportion . If to neglect ' produce our own country mn m m our minds to be set productions another we to ...
... produce m m pw mn ทะ good society . If subject to be3 to engage to pro- vide only luxuries necessaries must to be deficient proportion . If to neglect ' produce our own country mn m m our minds to be set productions another we to ...
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Page 41 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 42 - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air ; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 24 - I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion.
Page 27 - Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. "The islands...
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Page 47 - ... and dulcifying a substance, naturally so mild and dulcet as the flesh of young pigs. It looks like refining a violet. Yet we should be cautious, while we condemn the inhumanity, how we censure the wisdom of the practice.
Page 46 - Pig, let me speak his praise, is no less provocative of the appetite than he is satisfactory to the criticalness of the censorious palate. The strong man may batten on him, and the weakling refuseth not his mild juices. Unlike to mankind's mixed characters, a bundle of virtues and vices, inexplicably intertwisted, and not to be unraveled without hazard, he is good throughout.
Page 32 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Page 48 - What an odd revelation, and what an unforeseen and unpleasant surprise to a small community, the very existence of which you had not suspected, until the sudden dismay and scattering among its members produced by your turning the old stone over ! Blades of grass flattened down, colorless, matted together, as if they had been bleached and ironed ; hideous crawling creatures, some of them coleopterous or...
Page 42 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and f heat.