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... things to virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed ...
... things to virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed ...
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... We say the heart to ex- press emotion , the head to denote thought ; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things , and now appropriated to spiritual nature . Most of the process by which this trans-
... We say the heart to ex- press emotion , the head to denote thought ; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things , and now appropriated to spiritual nature . Most of the process by which this trans-
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... things , which they convert into verbs , and apply to analogous mental acts . - 2. But this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import , -so conspicuous a fact in the his- tory of language , is our least debt to nature . It is ...
... things , which they convert into verbs , and apply to analogous mental acts . - 2. But this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import , -so conspicuous a fact in the his- tory of language , is our least debt to nature . It is ...
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... things and human thoughts , savages , who have only what is necessary , converse in figures . As we go back in history , language becomes more picturesque , until its infancy , when it is all poetry ; or all spiritual facts are ...
... things and human thoughts , savages , who have only what is necessary , converse in figures . As we go back in history , language becomes more picturesque , until its infancy , when it is all poetry ; or all spiritual facts are ...
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... things which are not ; a paper currency is employed , when there is no bullion in the vaults . In due time the fraud is manifest , and words lose all power to stim- - ulate the understanding or the affections . Hun- dreds of LANGUAGE . 35.
... things which are not ; a paper currency is employed , when there is no bullion in the vaults . In due time the fraud is manifest , and words lose all power to stim- - ulate the understanding or the affections . Hun- dreds of LANGUAGE . 35.
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