 | Arts, British - 1726 - 370 pages
...an in/lance out of any of the ancient t of what you think a jufi thought i A. Sir, thoughts are only the images of things, as words are the images of thoughts, and to think, in general, imports no more, than to form in one's felf the description of an objedt, reprefented to... | |
 | John Oldmixon - 1728 - 484 pages
...Stage, being follow'da whole Seafon 5 fuch Currency may be more infamous than to be damn'd at Sight. Thoughts are the Images of Things, as Words are the Images of Thoughts ; and to Think or Speak in general Terms, is to form in One's Mind the Picture of an Object either fpiritual or fenfible.... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1742 - 418 pages
...vicious; Or rather, thofe which pafs for beautiful, are not really fo, unlefs founded in truth, pag. ju Thoughts are the images of things, as words are the...understanding. Now images and pictures are only true from the refemblance they bear to their objects. Thus a thought is true, when it reprefents things faithfully;... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...novelty, and carries with it fome degree of information, which it has drawn from truth and nature. Thoughts are the images of things, as words are the images of thoughts, and they are both, like other piftures and images, to be efteemed or defpifed, as the reprefenta. tion... | |
 | John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...novelty, and carries with it fome degree of information, which it has drawn from truth and nature. Thoughts are the images of things, as words are the images of thoughts, and they are both, like other pifturesand images, to be efteemed or defpifed, as the reprcfeiua. tion is... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 420 pages
...the mimetic mirror. To the question, 'What is the exact Notion of a true thought?' Eudoxus replies: Thoughts . . . are the Images of things, as words are the Images of Thoughts: and generally speaking, to think is to Form in ones self the Picture of any Object spiritual or sensible.... | |
 | John Oldmixon, Mr. Oldmixon (John) - Criticism - 488 pages
...Stage, being follow'da whole Seaftm ; fuch Currency may be more infamous than to be damn'd at Sight. Thoughts are the Images of Things, as Words are the Images of Thoughts ; and to Think or Speak in general Terms, is to form in One's Mind the Pichire of an Objeft either fpiritual or fenfible.... | |
 | Robert L. Montgomery - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 229 pages
...(6). This reaction against brilliance is a conviction about what in language should command attention: Thoughts ... are the images of things, as words are the images of Thoughts: and generally speaking, to think is to Form in ones self the Picture of any Object spiritual or sensible.... | |
 | Barbara Warnick - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 204 pages
...and falseness thus resulted from a mismatch between the terms used and the reality they described. "Thoughts . . . are the images of things, as words are the images of thoughts; and to think ... is to form in oneself the painting of a spiritual or sensible object. However, images and paintings... | |
 | Elledge - History - 1999 - 418 pages
...which whatever one thinks, according to you, is so imperfect and monstrous. Thoughts, answers Eudoxus, are the images of things, as words are the images of thoughts; and generally speaking, to think is to form in oneself the picture of any object, spiritual or sensible.... | |
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... the picture of any object, spiritual or sensible. Now images and pictures are true no further than they resemble; so a thought is true when it represents things faithfully, and it is false when it makes them appear otherwise than they are in themselves. 