 Time must be given for the intellect to eddy about a truth, and to appropriate its bearings. There is a sort of previous lubrication, such as the boa-constrictor applies to any subject of digestion, which is requisite to familiarize the mind with a startling...  De Quincey's Writings - Strana 63podľa Thomas De Quincey - 1853Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1840 - Počet stránok 876
...eye a good deal longer than the chastity of taste or the austerity of logic would tolerate in a book. Time must be given for the intellect to eddy about a truth, and to appropriate its bearinge. There is a sort of previous lubrication, such as the boa-constrictor applies to any subject... | |
 | 1840 - Počet stránok 1522
...a good deal longer than the chastity of taste or the austerity of logic would tolerate in a book. / -Time must be given for the intellect to eddy about...of digestion, which is requisite to familiarize the j mind with a startling or a complex , novelty. And this is obtained for the intellect by varying the... | |
 | 1840 - Počet stránok 880
...eye a good deal longer than the chastity of taste or the austerity of logic would tolerate in a book. Time must be given for the intellect to eddy about a truth, and to appropriate its bearingá. There is a sort of previous lubrication, such as the boa- constrictor applies to any subject... | |
 | 1873 - Počet stránok 784
...vibrate your reflections at every possible angle, if you would agitate the popular mind extensively. " Time must be given for the intellect to eddy about a truth, and to appropriate its bearings." The true art in popular eloquence, this authority rules, is to contrive the best forms for appearing... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - Počet stránok 618
...with a substantial identity of the sense and dilution of the truth, is oftentimes a necessity. . . . Time must be given for the intellect to eddy about a truth, and to appropriate its bearings, . . . and this is obtained by varying the modes of presenting it — now putting it directly before... | |
 | William Mathews - 1878 - Počet stránok 476
...and reiterating his thoughts, till he is sure that he is understood and has made a deep impression. There is a sort of previous lubrication, such as the boa-constrictor applies to the goat or bullock he digests, which is absolutely necessary to familiarize the popular mind with... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1880 - Počet stránok 286
...in all the forms needful to the clear communication and full comprehension of it. De Quincey says, " There is a sort of previous lubrication, such as the...obtained for the intellect by varying the modes of piv-cnting it — now putting it directly before the eye, now <'nliquely, now in an abstract shape,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - Počet stránok 368
...with a substantial identity of the sense and dilution of the truth, is oftentimes a necessity. . . . Time must be given for the intellect to eddy about a truth, and to appropriate its bearings, . . . and this is obtained by varying the modes of presenting it — now putting it directly before... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - Počet stránok 476
...the chastity of taste or the austerity of logic would tolerate in a book. Time must be given for\ 1 y the intellect to eddy about a truth, and to appropriate...boa-constrictor applies to any subject of digestion, which ia requisite to familiarize the mind with a startling or a complex novelty. And this is obtained for... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1892 - Počet stránok 518
...Quincey, 1 " for the intellect to eddy about a truth, and to 1 De Quincey, Essay on " Style," Part I. appropriate its bearings. There is a sort of previous...familiarize the mind with a startling or a complex novelty." The mere fact that by amplification the idea gains bulk and time is one important reason for dwelling... | |
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