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While the utility of the external signs of our feelings or emotions in giving them names or speaking of them is obvious, it is also manifest that the words which literally describe the external sign, as well as the words applied metaphorically to the acts or emotions of the mind, acquire a precision in their figurative sense from usage, which they cannot possess when first made use of; and which even the signs themselves, the whole of which can never be expressed by words, do not possess.

"Qu'est-ce que la joie? me dit Massieu. Je crus en “faire le signe en prenant l'air riant et joieux; mais il me "vint aussitot dans l'esprit que Massieu pourroit bien "confondre les mots satisfaction, contentement, plaisir, bon"heur, allegresse, qui, à peu de chose près, ont le même signe extérieur pour expression." - Cours d'Instruction d'un Sourd-muet. Par Roche Ambroise Sicard.

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We are struck by the expression on hearing seamen speak of "seeing a breeze," when they see far off the ruffling of the sea occasioned by it; but we use exactly the same figure when we speak of seeing one's passions, his anguish, joy, &c.

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