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" ... although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well loquendum ut vulgus sentiendum ut sapientes; yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgement. "
The Diversions of Purley - Page 16
by John Horne Tooke - 1860 - 739 pages
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 14

Henry Barnard - Education - 1864 - 906 pages
...that words exercise a reciprocal and reactionary power over our intellect. Words, as a Tartar's bow, shoot back upon 'the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment." Again, of what practical advantage would be the careful cultivation of observation, without a corresponding...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 14

Henry Barnard - Education - 1864 - 874 pages
...that words exercise a reciprocal and reactionary power over our intellect. Words, as a Tartar's bow, shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment." Again, of what practical advantage would be the careful cultivation of observation, without a corresponding...
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Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal ..., Volume 1

Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1864 - 452 pages
...words exercise a reciprocal and reactionary power over our intellect.' ' Words, as a Tartar's bow, shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgement.' MAX MULLER. OXFORD : June 11, 1861. CONTENTS. LECTURE I. PAGE THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE ONE...
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Christian Witness and Congregational Magazine, Volume 5

1863 - 340 pages
...exert a reciprocal and reactionary power over our intellects. Words, as a Tartar's bow, shoot hack upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment." And so expression reacts upon emotion, the delivery upon the heart and the character. He, therefore,...
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Palæstra Gallica, Or, an Introduction to the Philology of the French ...

Albert L. Meissner - French philology - 1868 - 144 pages
...that words exercise a reciprocal and reactionary power over their intellect. Words, as a Tartar's bow, shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment.' MORPHOLOGY. ARTICLES. § 36. By a process common to all modern European languages, the demonstrative...
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Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - Logic - 1869 - 446 pages
...we think we govern our\ woi'dyand prescribe it well loquendum ut vulgus senti- \ endum ut sapientes; yet certain it is that words, as a ] Tartar's bow,...the wisest, and mightily- entangle and pervert the judgement. So as it is almost necessary, in all controversies and disputations, to imitate the wisdom...
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The Western Monthly, Volumes 1-2

Francis Fisher Browne - 1869 - 926 pages
...but it happens, too, that words exercise a reciprocal and reactionary power over the intellect. * * * Words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding...wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment." Not only every language, but every age, has its charmed words, its necromantic terms, which give to...
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The Lakeside Monthly, Volume 2

Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 486 pages
...but it happens, too, that words exercise a reciprocal and reactionary power over the intellect. * * * Words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding...wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment." Not only every language, but every age, has its charmed words, its necromantic terms, which give to...
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The Laws of Discursive Thought: Being a Text-book of Formal Logic

James McCosh - Logic - 1870 - 252 pages
...which arise from the intercourse of mankind one with another. " Though we think we govern our words, yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding and do mightily entangle and pervert the judgment." The subject thus opened has been prosecuted by...
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A Book of Golden Thoughts

Henry Attwell - Quotations - 1870 - 314 pages
...that words exercise a reciprocal and reactionary power over our intellect. Words, as a Tartar's bow, shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment. Bacon. WORDS AND THINGS. A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so utter...
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