A Dictionary of Practical Apiculture: Giving the Correct Meaning of Nearly Five Hundred Terms ... Intended as a Guide to Uniformity of Expression Amongst Bee-keepersIndustrial Publication Company, 1884 - 80 Seiten |
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Seite viii - Into every process of reasoning, language enters as an essential element. Words are the instruments by which we form all our abstractions, by which we fashion and embody our ideas, and by which we are enabled to glide along a series of premises and conclusions with a rapidity so great as to leave in the memory no trace of the successive steps of the process; and we remain unconscious how much we owe to this potent auxiliary of the reasoning faculty.
Seite vii - ... a no less important function as an instrument of thought; not being merely its vehicle, but giving it wings for flight. Metaphysicians are agreed that scarcely any of our intellectual operations could be carried on to any considerable extent, without the agency of words.
Seite 56 - In a minute's time, or little more, you will with delight hear them drop like peas into the empty hive. When the major part of them are down, and you hear very few fall, you may beat the top of the hive gently with your hand, to get as many out as you can. Then loosing the cloth, lift it off to a table, or broad board, prepared on purpose, and knocking the hive against it several times, many more will tumble out, perhaps the queen among them, as I have often found. Lodging near the crown, she often...