"Natural language" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... do not exist yet. "Construction," he says—artistic or literary construction—"rests upon feeling, instinct, and," alas! also, "upon will." The instinct, at all events, was certainly his. And over and above that he had possessed himself of the art of expressing, in quite natural language, very difficult thoughts; those abstract and metaphysical conceptions especially, in which German mind has been rich, which are bad masters, but very useful ministers towards the understanding, towards an analytical survey, of all that ...
— Essays from 'The Guardian' • Walter Horatio Pater
... in its greatest energy, is inspiration. "Inspiration, daughter of the soul and heaven, speaks from on high with an absolute authority. It commands faith; so all its words are hymns, and its natural language is poetry." "Thus, in the cradle of civilization, he who possessed in a higher degree than his fellows the gift of inspiration, passed for the confidant and the interpreter of God. He is so for others, because he is so for himself; and he is so, ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker
... for Spanish holds good for even other so called natural language, including English, and more with English than any other on account of its ...
— Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education • Richard Bartholdt and A. Christen |
