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" Language most shewes a man: speake that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired, and inmost parts of us, and is the Image of the Parent of it, the mind. No glasse renders a mans forme, or likenesse, so true as his speech. "
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 399
by George Burnett - 1813
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Education, Volume 8

1888 - 738 pages
...some revelation of the mind of the learner. " Speak, 4that I may see thee. Language most shows a man. No glass renders a "" man's form or likeness so true as his speech." Oratio vultus animi est. Speech is the mirror of the soul. Where shall I begin? In what shall I instruct...
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Homiletics

James Mason Hoppin - 1881 - 842 pages
...Language must show a man ; speak, that I may see thee ! It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man's form and likeness so true as his speech." Walter Savage Landor says, " Language is a part of a man's character."...
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English Language and Literary Criticism: English prose

James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pages
...— Language shews a man : Speak, that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, (he mind. No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as Ids speech. Nay, it is likened to a...
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English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms

William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 pages
...Language most shows a man : speak, that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it,...so true as his speech. Nay, it is likened to a man ; arid as we consider feature and composition in a man, so words in language, in the greatness, openness,...
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Lectures on the English Language

George Perkins Marsh - 1885 - 612 pages
...Language most shows a man : speak that I may see tb.ee ! * It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. N < • glass renders a man's form and likeness so true as his epeech." But there is much risk of error...
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Lectures on the English Language

George Perkins Marsh - 1887 - 614 pages
...most shows a man : speak that I may see thee ! * It springs out of the most retired and inmost parte of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man's form and likeness so true as his speech." But there is much risk of error in the too extended application...
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Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter; Ed. with an Introduction ...

Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...Language most shows a man : Speak, that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it,...so true as his speech. Nay, it is likened to a man ; 20 and as we consider feature and composition in a man, so words in language ; in the greatness,...
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Timber, Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter

Ben Jonson - 1892 - 218 pages
...Language most shows a man : Speak, that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it,...so true as his speech. Nay, it is likened to a man ; 20 and as we consider feature and composition in a man, so words in language ; in the greatness,...
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Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter; Ed. with an Introduction ...

Ben Jonson - 1892 - 204 pages
...see thee. It springs out of the most \y retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the I -r" parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man's form...so true as his speech. Nay, it is likened to a man • 20] and as we consider feature and composition in a man, sp words in language ; in the greatness,...
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Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter

Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...Language most shows a man : Speak, that I may see thee. IJLjjRnRgs,,outiiof the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. JJp glass genders a man's form or < likeness so true as his sgeec,h. Nay, it is likened to a man ;...
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