 | Richard Whately - English language - 1828 - 424 pages
...which is a second nature, suggests spontaneously, these different modes of giving expression to the different thoughts, feelings, and designs, which are...work? Impress but the mind fully with the sentiments, &c. to be uttered ; withdraw the attention from the sound, and fix it on the sense ; and nature, or... | |
 | John Orville Taylor - Education - 1834 - 392 pages
...manner are natural, such as suggest themselves when one is speaking his own sentiments in earnest. Then, if this be the case, why not leave nature to do her own work ? Why learn to do that which nature will always make us capable of doing ? Impress the mind fully with... | |
 | Richard Whately - Rhetoric - 1839 - 372 pages
...custom, which is a second nature, suggest spontaneously these different modes of giving expression to the different thoughts, feelings, and designs, which are present to the mind of any one who, withoui study, is speaking in earnest his own sentiments. Then, if this be the case, why not leave... | |
 | Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - 1841 - 558 pages
...which is a second nature, suggests spontaneously these different modes of giving expression to the different thoughts, feelings, and designs, which are...work? Impress but the mind fully with the sentiments, &c. to be uttered; withdraw the attention from the sound, and fix it on the sense; and nature, or habit,... | |
 | Richard Whately - English language - 1841 - 374 pages
...custom, which is a second nature, suggest spontaneously these different modes of giving expression to the different thoughts, feelings, and designs, which are...speaking in earnest his own sentiments. Then, if this lie the case, why not leave nature to do her own work ? Impress but the mind fully with the sentiments,... | |
 | Richard Whately - Rhetoric - 1845 - 368 pages
...custom, which is a second nature, suggest spontaneously these different modes of giving expression to the different thoughts, feelings, and designs, which are...? Impress but the mind fully with the sentiments, &c. to be uttered ; withdraw the attention from the sound, and fix it on the sense; and nature, or... | |
 | Richard Whately - English language - 1846 - 366 pages
...which is a second nature, suggests spontaneously these different modes of giving expression to the different thoughts, feelings, and designs, which are...? Impress but the mind fully with the sentiments, &c. to be uttered ; withdraw the attention from the sound, and fix it on the sense ; and nature, or... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...suggests — that is, because its principles must be founded on nature. And he asks triumphantly — " Then, if this be the case, why not leave nature to do her own work?" The answer is obvious : because were we to leave nature to do her own work, we should never emerge... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...suggests — that is, because its principles must be founded on nature. And he asks triumphantly — " Then, if this be the case, why not leave nature to do her own work?" The answer is obvious : because were we to leave nature to do her own work, we should never emerge... | |
 | Richard Whateley - Rhetoric - 1848 - 376 pages
...custom, which is a second nature, suggest spontaneously these different modes of giving expression to the different thoughts, feelings, and designs, which are...own sentiments. Then, if this be the case, why not lecve nature to do her own work ? Impress but the mind fully with the sentiments, &c. to be uttered... | |
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... &c. The only answer that could be given, is, that these tones, emphases, &c. are a part of the language; — that nature, or custom, which is a second nature, suggests spontaneously these different modes of giving expression to the different thoughts,... 
