...declares to be the first duty of a poet. For language is the armoury of the human mind ; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests. " Animadverte, quam sit ab improprietate verborum pronum hominibus prolabi in errores circa res !"...

...declares to be the first duty of a poet. For language is the armoury of the human mind ; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests. " Animadverte, quam sit ab improprietate verborum pronum hominibus prolabi in errores circa res !"...

...declares to be the first duty of a poet For language is the armory of the human mind ; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests. " Animadverte, quam sit ab improprietate verborum pronum hominibus prolabi in errores circa res !"...

...Observation, and by calm and profound Medita Uon, fllled himself, as It were, with hl» subject. BTC at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests. Animadverte, says Hobbes, quam sit ab improprietate verborum pronum hominibus prolabi in errores circa...

...theologian must he ; for, as Coleridge says, " language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests." In those days, it was the custom, at seats of learning, for the ahlest men to hold public disputes,...

...— making in that new word a new region of thought to be in some sort the common heritage of all. Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus...

...aspire ; But then we shall ; and that is my desire.' " Language is truly, as Mr. Trench calb it, " the amber in •which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. In the second lecture, on " the Morality in words," the subject is thus admirably...

...itself a great element of that advance; for "language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests." The mighty moral instincts which have been working in the popular mind, have found therein their unconscious...

...itself advancing with the progress of these, and even itself a great element ofthat advance. He calls it the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. He reserves the dictum which pronounces words the wise man's counters and the...

...itself advancing with the progress of these, and even itself a great element ofthat advance. He calls it the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. He reserves the dictum which pronounces words the wise man's counters and the...