 | Richard Harrison Black - 1822 - 376 pages
...themselves cease, and the way to knowledge, and perhaps peace too, lie a great deal opener than it does. The consideration of ideas and words, as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicahle part of their contemplation, who would lake a view of human knowledge in the whole extent... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1823 - 672 pages
...most convenient, and therefore generally make use of, are articulate sounds. The consideration then of ideas and words, as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despkable part of their contemplation, who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent... | |
 | Chevalier Bunsen, Charles Meyer, Friedrich Max Müller - Bengali language - 1848 - 110 pages
...the ideas represented by words, the affinity of which has been proved by historical comparison; but I do not consider the object of comparative philology...Human Understanding, "the consideration of ideas and mords, as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation, who... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1864 - 652 pages
...most convenient, and therefore generally make use of, are articulate sounds. The consideration, then, of ideas and words as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their consideration, who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And, perhaps, if... | |
 | University of the State of New York - Education - 1868 - 160 pages
...LIBERAL OR PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION. BY NW BENEDICT, A. 11., Principal of the Rochester Free Academy. " The consideration of ideas and words as the great...instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their consideration, who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And, perhaps, if... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1873 - 738 pages
...most convenient, and therefore generally make use of, are articulate sounds. The consideration, then, of ideas and words as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their consideration, who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And, perhaps, if... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1873 - 792 pages
...most convenient, and therefore generally make use of, are articulate sounds. The consideration, then, of ideas and words as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their consideration, who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And, perhaps, if... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1891 - 764 pages
...Understanding, iii. 5, 10. therefore generally make use of, are articulate sounds. The consideration, then, of ideas and words as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their consideration, who would take a mew of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And, perhaps, if... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1924 - 438 pages
...the signs of things and words are the signs of ideas, so that Locke describes his undertaking as ' the consideration of ideas and words as the great instruments of knowledge '. But, as Professor Gibson remarks, ' it is notoriously easier to propose such absolute divisions... | |
 | John W. Yolton - Philosophy - 1977 - 364 pages
...which powers result from the different modifications of those primary qualities. The Doctrine of Signs "The consideration ... of ideas and words as the great instruments of knowledge" The division of knowledge called "the doctrine of signs" considers "the nature of signs the mind makes... | |
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... who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic than what we have been hitherto acquainted with. 