 | Richard Whately - Logic - 1832 - 386 pages
...indeed it is obvious on a moment's reflection that tenacious clay-soils (as well as muddy roads) are figuratively called heavy, from the difficulty of...often happens that Language bears rule over their rnind." Some of the weak and absurd arguments which are often urged against Suicide may be traced to... | |
 | 1840 - 566 pages
...purgation of the human intellect, and Lord Bacon's aphorism cannot be too often quoted, that " men imagine that their minds have the command of language ; but...often happens, that language bears rule over their minds." Let us look at this influence in the one case now before us. The Union, that is, the combined... | |
 | Richard Whately - Logic - 1843 - 372 pages
...indeed it is obvious on a moment's reflection that tenacious clay-soils (as well as muddy roads) are figuratively called heavy, from the difficulty of...mind." Some of the weak and absurd arguments which ate often urged against Suicide may be traced to the influence of words on thoughts. When a Christian... | |
 | Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - Logic - 1848 - 490 pages
...indeed it is obvious, on a moment's reflection, that tenacious clay-soils (as well as muddy roads) are figuratively called heavy, from the difficulty of...When a Christian moralist is called on for a direct Scripture precept against suicide, instead of replying that the Bible is not meant for a complete code... | |
 | Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - Logic - 1867 - 336 pages
...indeed it is obvious on a moment's reflection that 'enaciffus elay-soils (as well as muddy roads) are figuratively called heavy, from the difficulty of...against Suicide may be traced to the influence of worda on thoughts. When a Christian moralist is called on for a direct Scriptural precept against suicide,... | |
 | Manchester diocesan Church assoc - 1868 - 188 pages
...Corporation-street, Manchester. CHURCHMANSHIP. "—To whom he gave no such commandment."— Acts xv. 24. " MEN imagine," says Bacon, " that their minds have...command of language ; but it often happens that language boars rule over their mind." " Words," says Hobbes, " are the counters of wise men, and the money of... | |
 | Henry Bannerman - Apostasy - 1871 - 464 pages
...deluded by sounds, through not considering with due care their true sense. " Men imagine," says Lord Bacon, " that their minds have the command of language,...often happens that language bears rule over their minds." In no branch of knowledge, perhaps, is the influence of words over men's thoughts so powerful... | |
 | English periodicals - 1893 - 564 pages
...wrote his immortal Aphorism that the idola fori caused the most trouble of all the idols. ' Men imagine that their minds have the command of language, but it often happens that language reacts upon and rules their minds.' 1 From the constant use of a word, and the reiteration of a familiar... | |
 | Noah Knowles Davis - Logic - 1880 - 344 pages
...Perhaps no fallacy is so prolific of false doctrine as this. Are mere words, then, so dangerous ? " Men imagine," says Bacon, " that their minds have...often happens that language bears rule over their minds." And this rule is often misrule. Living languages, especially, abound in ambiguities, and no... | |
 | John William Kirton - Temperance - 1885 - 176 pages
..."Whately in his " Logic," Book III., chap. 5, referring to the influence of words on thought, remarks : "'Men imagine,' says Bacon, 'that their minds have...but it often happens that language bears rule over the mind.' " The Bible tells us over and over again how wells were dug and sunk, — not how breweries... | |
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... sense. The same words, when applied to articles of diet, have produced important errors ; many supposing some article of food to be light of digestion from its being specifically light. So true is the ingenious observation of Hobbes, that " words... 
