 | William Dwight Whitney - Comparative linguistics - 1869 - 548 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure." Then, in order to establish the truth of this opinion, he goes on to cite a couple of historical instances,... | |
 | Literature - 1875 - 1012 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words, according to our pleasure." In order to explain what I meant by " according to our pleasure," I quoted the well-known... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1879 - 626 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words...submits to them, the poet and the philosopher become lords of language only if they know its laws and obey them." And though this is certainly an overstatement... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Comparative linguistics - 1876 - 354 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure." Then, in order to establish the truth of this opinion, he goes on to cite a couple of historical instances,... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1876 - 588 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words, according to our pleastire." In order to guard against every possible apprehension as to what I meant by according to... | |
 | Education - 1885 - 696 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of ouv blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure. As man is lord of nature only if he knows her laws and submits to them, the poet and philosopher become the lords... | |
 | Batista Caetano - Portuguese language - 1881 - 230 pages
...the laws wich con« trol the circulation of our blood, or of adding aninch « to our height, as of altering the laws of speech « or inventing new words...only if he knows « her laws and submits to them, the post and the phi« losopher become the lords of language only if they « know its laws and obey to... | |
 | Morris M. Cohn - Jurisprudence - 1882 - 212 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words...lords of language only if they know its laws and obey them.1 " The process through which language is settled and unsettled combines in one the two opposite... | |
 | 1883 - 528 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words, according to our pleasure. As man is the lord of Nature, only if he knows her laws and submits to them, the poet and... | |
 | Franklin Woodbury Fisk - Preaching - 1904 - 368 pages
...changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure." 1 But though we may not use many of the terms employed by the early English writers, yet it is allowable,... | |
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... prevent it. We might think as well of changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure. 
