...having been weighed together ; indeed it is obvious on a moment's reflection that tenacious day-soils (as well as muddy roads) are figuratively called heavy,...When a Christian moralist is called on for a direct Scriptural precept against suicide, instead of replying that the Bible is not meant for a complete...

...indeed it is obvious on a moment's reflection that tenaciom claysoils (as well as muddy roads) axe figuratively called heavy, from the difficulty of...When a Christian moralist is called on for a direct Scriptural precept against suicide, instead of replying that the Bible is not meant for a complete...

...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...

...opposite presumptions, the counter-presumption has often as much weight as the other, and sometimes more. "Men imagine," says Bacon, "that their minds have...When a Christian moralist is called on for a direct Scriptural precept against Suicide, instead of replying that the Bible is not meant for a complete...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

..."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...

...why. Often, however, the words really do deceive both speaker and hearer. As Bacon says: " Men imagine that their minds have the command of language; but...often happens that language bears rule over their minds. " Here are some examples of various kinds. We know that we ought to control our tempers, and...