 | Kevin J. Vanhoozer - 2009 - 502 sider
...Dr. Johnson echoes Plato even as he anticipates the postmodern despair of the sign: “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,... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 sider
...word—or at least a great many—with attention to the good it might do in the world. This writer does not forget "that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven" (par. 17), yet he hopes to join them as God would join matter and spirit. The presence of a guiding... | |
 | 380 sider
...come, we have left thee nothing worthy of thy death. Amen. Five Daughters of Earth/ Sons of Heaven / am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words...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. Samuel Johnson, Dictionary,... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 sider
...it. 27:251 am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to Cicero, 45—44 BC, De divinatione, II, Ch. 119 forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is 27:17 Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error isa scribbled one, on... | |
 | Roger Pring - 2001 - 206 sider
...present are not done at all. JMKEYNES, The End of ¡.aisser-iaire li\lhlt li'MMIM Kill II IH\|l| \V| II I am not so lost in lexicography, as to forget that...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,... | |
 | Marion Halligan - 2004 - 294 sider
...appositeness to some of the theories of the last half of the twentieth century. He says: 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 that... | |
 | John T. Lynch, Anne McDermott - 2005 - 268 sider
...eighteenth-century conception of the relationship between words and things, insisting he was “not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven” (1825 Works, vol. v, p. 27). More to the point, his definition of dictionary suggests it is concerned... | |
 | Stuart Christie - 2005 - 230 sider
...opinion that particular combinations of letters have much influence on human happiness. ... 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 use but the signs of ideas: I wish, however,... | |
 | Christopher Bursk - 2006 - 150 sider
...England glorious, but the earth spinning and the dark IO from having its inevitable sway. 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,... | |
 | Judith Woolf - 2005 - 188 sider
...spelling fanciful and erroneous: I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words arc the daughters 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,... | |
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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. 
