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(1859) [MARC] Author: W. Mattieu Williams
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WORDS AND IDEAS.

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intelligibly in any European language in the course of
two or three weeks.

Many highly educated persons may have some
difficulty in finding clear and definite ideas before
expressing them; for having been educated 011 the false

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principle of attaching ideas to words, instead of words
to ideas, their intellects are apt to run in a
phraseological groove: words are necessary to the development
of their ideas, and their thoughts are tuned to the jingle
of a sentence.

To such people a definite idea standing out clearly
before the mind in its simple nakedness has existed only
in the forgotten experiences of childhood; and if many
of their most cherished notions were thus stripped of
the thickly padded clothing of words, in which alone
they have ever seen them, the proprietors might be
shocked at their deformity. To many persons,
therefore, the speaking of a language before being able to
make it into sentences will be a valuable corrective
exercise in unchaining the mind from the slavish
trammels of phraseological despotism.

Mine host informs me that English tourists are not
in the habit of taking this route, and that none have
passed this way for twelve months before; but that a
Scotch Englishman who manages the copper-mines at
Orkedal resides there.

My next day’s journey up the Orkedal was similar to
that just described. The Orkla Elv winds through a
rich, terraced valley; the level of the upper terrace
remaining constant; and therefore its height above the

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