| James Edwin Creighton - 1909 - Liczba stron: 548
...matter has been expressed very clearly by Locke, from whom I quote the following passage: — " For he that shall well consider the errors and obscurity, the mistakes and confusion, that are spread in the world by an ill use of words, will find some reason to doubt whether 6 4 language,... | |
| John Morley - 1914 - Liczba stron: 130
...prevail. 1 Misuse of It will do us no harm to digest a sobering mlhfroot thought from Locke: "If any one shall well consider the errors and obscurity, the mistakes and confusion, that are spread in the world by an ill use of words, he will find some reason to doubt whether language,... | |
| Grenville Kleiser - 1917 - Liczba stron: 608
...you should first try to understand the writer's viewpoint and real purpose in what he has written. "He that shall well consider the errors and obscurity, the mistakes and confusion, that are spread in the world by an ill use of words," says Locke, "will find some reason to doubt whether... | |
| Roy Wood Sellars - 1917 - Liczba stron: 372
...Locke has pointed out these dangers, which only definition can correct, as well as any one: — " For he that shall well consider the errors and obscurity, the mistakes and confusion, that are spread in the world by an ill use of words, will find some reason to doubt whether language, as... | |
| Roy Wood Sellars - 1917 - Liczba stron: 368
...— " For he that shall well consider the errors and obscurity, the mistakes and confusion, that are spread in the world by an ill use of words, will find some reason to doubt whether language, as it has been employed, has contributed more to the improvement... | |
| Thomas Lansing Masson - 1923 - Liczba stron: 466
...of what everybody knows can know that of which almost everybody is ignorant. — MACAULAY. // anyone shall well consider the errors and obscurity, the mistakes and confusion, that are spread in the world by an ill use of words, he will find some reason to doubt whether language,... | |
| Holly Estil Cunningham - 1924 - Liczba stron: 456
...misuse of them. A classical statement is that of Locke, the English philosopher (1632-1704). " For he that shall well consider the errors and obscurity, the mistakes and confusion, that are spread in the world by an ill use of words, will find some reason to doubt whether language, as... | |
| Daniel Sommer Robinson - 1924 - Liczba stron: 424
...but nowhere has it been made clearer than in John Locke's famous tirade against mere verbosity: "For he that shall well consider the errors and obscurity, the mistakes and confusion, that are spread in the world by an ill use of words, will find some reason to doubt whether language, as... | |
| Daniel Sommer Robinson - 1924 - Liczba stron: 424
...verbosity: "For he that shall well consider the errors and obscurity, the mistakes and confusion, that are spread in the world by an ill use of words, will find some reason to doubt whether language, as it has been employed, has contributed more to the improvement... | |
| Albert Flandreau Dean - 1925 - Liczba stron: 348
...In the absence of such definition intelligent reasoning is halted. The philosopher Locke said: "For he that shall well consider the errors and obscurity, the mistakes and confusion that are spread in the world by an ill use of words will find some reason to doubt whether language as it... | |
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