 | Samuel Bailey - 1855 - 846 páginas
...Trench, page 1. Another writer of reputation speaks in the same strain : " A language," he says, " will often be wiser, not merely than the vulgar, but...wisest of those who speak it. Being like amber in its eificacy to circulate the electric spirit of truth,* it is also like amber in embalming and preserving... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1859 - 252 páginas
...composition, although I must have been familiar with them long ago, words which express excellently well why it is that these studies profit so much,...who speak it. Being like amber in its efficacy to circu late the electric spirit of truth, it is also like amber in embalming and preserving the relics... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 páginas
...like the thrilling wires, transfuse The telegraphic look ! Mrt. LANGUAGE— the Depository of Truth. A language will often be wiser, not merely than the...the wisest of those who speak it. Being like amber iu its efficacy to circulate the electric spirit of truth, it is also like amber in embalming and preserving... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1863 - 288 páginas
...Trench, page 1. Another writer of reputation speaks in the same strain : " A language," he says, " will often be wiser, not merely than the vulgar, but...it is also like amber in embalming and preserving * Unfortunately for this similitude amber, although an electric, is a non-conductor of electricity... | |
 | 1865 - 976 páginas
...LANGUAGE— THE DEPOSITOBY or TIUiTH. — A language will often bo wiser, not ruftvly than the vulgar, hut even than the wisest of those who speak it. Being...like amber in its efficacy to circulate the electric spiiit of truth, it is also like nmber in embalming and preserving the relics uf ancient wisdom, although... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1866 - 260 páginas
...composition, although I must have been familiar with them long ago ; words which express excellently well why it is that these studies profit so much,...wisest of those who speak it. Being like amber in its efiicacy to circulate the electric spirit of truth, it is also like amber in embalming and preserving... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1868 - 264 páginas
...composition, although I must have been familiar with them long ago ; words which express excellently well why it is that these studies profit so much,...seldom puzzled to decipher its contents. Sometimes it leeks up truths which were once well known, but which, in the course of ages, have passed out of sight... | |
 | George Duffield - 1868 - 224 páginas
...namely, Eph. v. 18, that we cannot withhold it from the ordinary reader or the exegetical scholar : " A language will often be wiser, not merely than the...up truths which were once well known, but which, in course of ages, have passed out of sight and been forgotten." In the present case we are filled with... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - 1869 - 456 páginas
...HI. THE NATURE AND OPERATIONS OF CONSCIENCE. SOME philologist has remarked that "a language is often wiser, not merely than the vulgar, but even than the...efficacy to circulate the electric spirit of truth, it is like amber in embalming the relics of ancient wisdom." Granting that language is a divine gift to men,... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - 1870 - 458 páginas
...III. THE NATURE AND OPERATIONS OF CONSCIENCE. SOME philologist has remarked that "a language is often wiser, not merely than the vulgar, but even than the...efficacy to circulate the electric spirit of truth, it is like amber in embalming the relics of ancient wisdom." Granting that language is a divine gift to men,... | |
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A language will often be wiser, not merely than the vulgar, but even than the wisest of those who speak it. Being like amber in its efficacy to circulate the electric spirit of truth, it is also like amber in embalming and preserving the relics of ancient... 
