 | John Henry Newman - 1843 - 706 Seiten
...language, which is obviously absurd. Yet nothing is more common than for men to think that bocause they are familiar with words, they understand the ideas they stand for. Educated persons despise this fault in illiterate men who use hard words as if they comprehended them.... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1875 - 412 Seiten
...in a proposition the terms of which belong to some foreign language, which is obviously absurd. Yet nothing is more common than for men to think that...with words, they understand the ideas they stand for. Educated persons despise this fault in illiterate men who use hard words as if they comprehended them.... | |
 | Colin Bingham - 1982 - 376 Seiten
...for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nothing is more common than for men to think that...with words they understand the ideas they stand for. CARDINAL NEWMAN The reader brings something with him to every act of reading. He brings his own experience... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 Seiten
...labour and laughter as a tired man looks at flies. GK Chesterton (1874-1936) British author Language Nothing is more common than for men to think that...with words they understand the ideas they stand for. Cardinal John Newman (1801-1890) English churchman, theologian One of the difficulties in the language... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 Seiten
...old philosophy tutor used to observe. Iris Murdoch, 1975, 'Monday' (first week), in A Word Child 5:41 Nothing is more common than for men to think that...words, they understand the ideas they stand for. John Henry Newman, quoted as an epigraph in Max Black (ed.), The Importance of Language (1962) 5:42 The... | |
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Yet nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words, they understand the ideas they stand for. 