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... quoted by Samuel Butler ( 1835- 1902 ) in a lecture on ' Thought and Language ' ( 1890 ) 2:46 [ of tunnelling through a sandbank ] Lan- guage is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel . The power of thinking and the power ...
... quoted by Samuel Butler ( 1835- 1902 ) in a lecture on ' Thought and Language ' ( 1890 ) 2:46 [ of tunnelling through a sandbank ] Lan- guage is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel . The power of thinking and the power ...
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... quoted in Louis Untermeyer , ' Five Famous Poetesses ' , in Ladies ' Home Journal ( May 1964 ) 49:81 I would be ... quoted in Patricia C. Willis ( ed . ) , The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore ( 1986 ) 49:86 Use no word that under stress ...
... quoted in Louis Untermeyer , ' Five Famous Poetesses ' , in Ladies ' Home Journal ( May 1964 ) 49:81 I would be ... quoted in Patricia C. Willis ( ed . ) , The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore ( 1986 ) 49:86 Use no word that under stress ...
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... quoted in Robert MacNeil , The Right Place at the Right Time ( 1982 ) 59 : 4 Good prose is the selection of the best words ; poetry is the best words in the best order ; and journalese is any old words in any old order . Anonymous , quoted ...
... quoted in Robert MacNeil , The Right Place at the Right Time ( 1982 ) 59 : 4 Good prose is the selection of the best words ; poetry is the best words in the best order ; and journalese is any old words in any old order . Anonymous , quoted ...
Índice
Introduction | 7 |
Language in Thinking and Thought | 9 |
Body Language | 23 |
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