 | England - 1862 - 822 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure." Is there then no growth of language? In one sense, yes. And this growth comprises two processes, which... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Psychology - 1855 - 846 pages
...Lectures, p. 30. which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure."* Again, speaking of the individual : " He can do nothing by himself, and the first impulse to a new... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1862 - 512 pages
...adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech or inventing new words according to our pleasure. As man is the lord of nature only if he knows her laws and submits to them, £so] the poet and the philosopher become the lords of language only if they know its laws and obey... | |
 | Bible - 1862 - 934 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure. Language is a growth, and has a continuous life, like a tree. Or more exactly, it is a deposit, and... | |
 | Theology - 1862 - 920 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure. Language is af/rowth, and has a continuous life, like a tree. Or more exactly, it is a deposit, and... | |
 | John Laws Milton - 1864 - 668 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words...he knows her laws and submits to them, the poet and philosopher become the lords of language only if they know its laws and obey them." As soon as ever... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1865 - 686 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as Of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure," — he goes on to cite cases in which two famous Emperors, Tiberius of Rome, and Sigismund of Germany,... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Comparative linguistics - 1867 - 518 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure." Then, in order to establish the truth of this opinion, he goes on to cite a couple of historical instances,... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Comparative linguistics - 1867 - 516 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure." Then, in order to establish the truth of this opinion, he goes on to cite a couple of historical instances,... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1862 - 538 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech or inventing new words according to our pleasure. As man is the lord of nature only if he knows her laws and submits to them, FsoT the poet... | |
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... prevent it. We might think as well of changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure. 
