 ... &c., are all words taken from the operations of sensible things, and applied to certain modes of thinking. Spirit, in its primary signification, is breath; angel, a messenger ; and I doubt not, but if we could trace them to their sources, we should...  A Collection of Tracts ... - Page 144by George Benson - 1748 - 259 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1891 - 764 pages
...instil, disgust, disturbance, tranquillity, &c., are all words taken from the operations of sensible things, and applied to certain modes of thinking. Spirit, in its primary signification, is breath ; angel, a messenger ; and I doubt not, but if we could trace them to their... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1892 - 566 pages
...instil, disgust, disturbance, tranquillity, <fec., are all words taken from the operations of sensible things, and applied to certain modes of thinking. Spirit, in its primary signification, is breath ; angel, a messenger; and I doubt not, but if we could trace them to their... | |
 | Karl Brugmann - Indo-European languages - 1893 - 830 pages
...instil, disgust, disturbance, tranquillity, etc. are all words taken from the operations of sensible things, and applied to certain modes of thinking. Spirit, in its primary signification, is breath : angel a messenger: and I doubt not, but if we could trace them to their... | |
 | Karl Brugmann - Indo-European languages - 1893 - 824 pages
...instil, disgust, disturbance, tranquillity, etc. are all words taken from the operations of sensible things, and applied to certain modes of thinking. Spirit, in its primary signification, is breath : angel a messenger: and I doubt not, but if we could trace them to their... | |
 | Alfred Weber - Philosophy - 1896 - 660 pages
...instil, disgust, disturbance, tranquillity, etc., are all words taken from the operations of sensible things and applied to certain modes of thinking. Spirit, in its primary signification, is breath ; angel, a messenger. If we could trace all these words to their sources,... | |
 | Alfred Weber - Philosophy - 1896 - 650 pages
...instil, disgust, disturbance, tranquillity, etc., are all words taken from the operations of sensible things and applied to certain modes of thinking. Spirit, in its primary signification, is breath ; angel, a messenger. If we could trace all these words to their sources,... | |
 | Edward Payson Payson - Sociology - 1898 - 264 pages
...instil, disgust, disturbance, tranquillity, &c., are all words taken from the operations of sensible things, and applied to certain modes of thinking. Spirit, in its primary signification is breath ; angel, a messenger ; and I doubt not, but if we could trace them to their... | |
 | W. F. Bolton - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1966 - 244 pages
...Instill, Disgust, Disturbance, Tranquillity, &c. are all Words taken from the Operations of sensible Things, and applied to certain Modes of Thinking. Spirit, in its primary signification, is Breath; Angel, a Messenger: And I doubt not, but if we could trace them to their... | |
 | Manfred Görlach - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 492 pages
...Instill, Disgust, Disturbance, Tranquillity, &c. are all Words taken from the Operations of sensible Things, and applied to certain Modes of Thinking. Spirit, in its primary signification, is Breath; Angel, a Messenger: And I doubt not, but if we could trace them to 45 their... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - Mathematics - 1996 - 528 pages
...instil, disgust, disturbance, tranquillity, etc. are all words taken from the operations of sensible things, and applied to certain modes of thinking. Spirit, in its primary signification, is breath ; angel, a messenger . . .. By which we may give some kind of guess, what... | |
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