 | George Eliot - 1860 - 476 páginas
...the ship of the desert, but it would hardly lead one far in training that useful beast. Oh Aristotle! if you had had the advantage of being " the freshest...intelligence so rarely shows itself in speech without metaphor—that we can so seldom declare what a thing is except by saying it is something else? Tom... | |
 | George Eliot - 1860 - 382 páginas
...the ship of the desert, but it would hardly lead one far in training that useful beast. 0 Aristotle ! if you had had the advantage of being "the freshest modern" instead of the greatest aiicient, would you not have mingled your praise of metaphorical speech, as a sign of high intelligence,... | |
 | John Locke - 1880 - 386 páginas
...the ship of the desert, but it would hardly lead one far in training that useful beast. O Aristotle! if you had had the advantage of being "the freshest...intelligence so rarely shows itself in speech without metaphor,—that we can so seldom declare what a thing is, except by saying it is something else?'... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 850 páginas
...ship of the desert, but it would hardly lead one far in training that useful beast. Oh Aristotle ! if you had had the advantage of being "the freshest...your praise of metaphorical speech, as a sign of high mtelligence, with a lamentation that intelligence so rarely shows itself in speech without metaphor... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 404 páginas
...the ship of the desert, but it would hardly lead one far in training that useful beast. 0 Aristotle ! if you had had the advantage of being "the freshest...— that we can so seldom declare what a thing is, exeepi by saying it is soiuething else? A man with an affectionate disposition, who finds ;i wife to... | |
 | William Boyd Carpenter - 1889 - 494 páginas
...not had a directly theological object in view. The following may stand as specimens. " 0 Aristotle! if you had had the advantage of being 'the freshest...intelligence so rarely shows itself in speech without metaphor—that we can so seldom declare what a thing is, except by saying it is something else ? "—George... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 460 páginas
...the camel the ship of the desert, but it would hardly lead one far in training that useful beast. O Aristotle I if you had had the advantage of being...what a thing is, except by saying it is something else?"1 In an argument from SIGN, as has already been said,8 one thing suggests another through the... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 450 páginas
...the ship of the desert, but it would hardly lead one far in training that useful beast. O Aristotle ! if you had had the advantage of being 'the freshest...what a thing is, except by saying it is something else?"1 In an argument from SIGN, as has already been said,2 one thing suggests another through the... | |
 | John Adams - 1898 - 302 páginas
...the ship of the desert, but it would hardly lead one far in training that useful beast. O Aristotle ! If you had had the advantage of being ' the freshest...intelligence so rarely shows itself in speech without metai phor — that we can so seldom declare what a thing is, except by saying it is something else... | |
 | Pherozeshah Mehta - 1905 - 1002 páginas
...is owing to the use of the unlucky word " leader. " George Eliot says somewhere: — 'O, Aristotle! if you had had the advantage of being the freshest...so seldom declare what a thing is, except by saying that it is something else ?' One cannot help regretting that a word was ever used in reference to this... | |
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I if you had had the advantage of being " the freshest modern " instead of the greatest ancient, would you not have mingled your praise of metaphorical speech, as a sign of high intelligence, with a lamentation that intelligence so rarely shows itself... 
