 | 1918 - 928 sider
...power in this country. Though not a soldier, M. Clemenceau has a "war mind." He feels with Dr. Johnson, that "Words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of Heaven." He had completely and contemptuously discarded and even forgotten all former controversies and personalities... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1961 - 758 sider
...Senator DOUGLAS. Resolutions are one thing. Acts are another. I think it was Samuel Johnson who said, "Words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven." I don't mean to imply that sons are necessarily better than daughters. But the test is not in resolutions,... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Ho Ping-Yu, Lu Gwei-Djen, Nathan Sivin - 1980 - 832 sider
...I do, and I understand. Ten thousand words are not worth one seeing. Chinese proverbs. I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are...that things are the sons of heaven. SAMUEL JOHNSON Preface to his ‘Dictionary of the English Language' (+ 1755) By studying the organic patterns of... | |
 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - 1978 - 655 sider
...that truth may not be successfully taught by modes of spelling fanciful and erroneous: I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. 9 Language is only the instrument of science, 1 ° and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however,... | |
 | Ian Robinson - 1975 - 208 sider
...with great justness 'a grammarian's regard to the genius of our tongue') when he wrote: ' I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.' On the contrary words are a revelation of sense, about the things of earth amongst others. Words must... | |
 | John Dunn - 1979 - 156 sider
...could expect to be successful at it, that, alas, is quite a different thing. Reoolution ? '\ am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are...daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaoen.' Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, Preface, 1755. (The original is unpaginated.... | |
 | Robert DeMaria - 2000 - 324 sider
...words... . (Cyclopadia 1: viii-xii) In a famous passage of his preface Johnson says he is "not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas . .." (par. 17). Part... | |
 | Catherine Neal Parke - 1991 - 212 sider
...possible charge of becoming lost in lexicography illustrates this principle of economy: I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 sider
...(1802-1885) French poet, dramatist, novelist. Les Contemplations, "Suite," pt. 1,ch. 8(1856). 7 I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however,... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 sider
...filtered through language. It is good Lockean theory. Despite Johnson's famous remark that he was "not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven" (Greene, p. 310), he thought, like Locke, that there was a practical, if shifting and relative, correspondence... | |
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—I AM not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Samuel Johnson. 
