 | James Gilchrist - 1816 - 296 pages
...words murmur against it. The remedy of this lies in definitions, but these themselves are in many cases irremediable, as consisting of words: for words generate...definitions premised to arts in the prudent mathematical R 2 manner, to correct the wrong acceptation of words : yet all this is insufficient to prevent the... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - 1858 - 778 pages
...intellectum retorqueant et reflect<int. " For words generate words, however men may imagine they have command over words, and can easily say they will speak with the vulgar and think with the wise." " The citations are, case of the slave, Grace, 2 Hagg. p. 126-128. In these nothing else is declared... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - 1858 - 678 pages
...intellectnm retorqueant et reflectutit. " For words generate words, however men may imagine they have commend over words, and can easily say they will speak with the vulgar and think with the wise." 2 The citations are, case of the slave, Grace, 2 Hagg. p. 12C-128. In these nothing else is declared... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - 1858 - 694 pages
...intellectum retorqueant et reflectant. " For words generate words, however men may imagine they have commend over words, and can easily say they will speak with the vulgar tod think with the wise." ' The citations are, case of the slave, Grace, 2 Hagg. p. 126-128. In these... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1872 - 602 pages
...things by such differences as the common people are capable of: but when a more acute understanding, or a more careful observation, would distinguish things...violence to the understanding, and recoiling upon it, from whence they proceeded. This evil, therefore, requires a new and a deeper remedy ; but these... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 542 pages
...things by such differences as the common people are capable of: but when a more acute understanding, or a more careful observation, would distinguish things...violence to the understanding, and recoiling upon it, from whence they proceeded. This evil, therefore, requires a new and a deeper remedy; but these... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 606 pages
...things by such differences as the common people are capable of: but when a more acute understanding, or a more careful observation, would distinguish things...violence to the understanding, and recoiling upon it, from whence they proceeded. This evil, therefore, requires a new and a deeper remedy ; but these... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1902 - 440 pages
...things by such differences as the common people are capable of: but when a more acute understanding, or a more careful observation, would distinguish things...violence to the understanding, and recoiling upon it, from whence they proceeded. This evil, therefore, requires a new and a deeper remedy; but these... | |
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... tacit agreement among mankind, with regard to the imposition of words and names, insinuate themselves into the understanding: for words are generally given according to vulgar conception, and divide things by such differences as the common people... 