 | Keally McBride - Law - 2007 - 212 pages
...every complex idea, or so correct as not to include many, equivocally denoting different ideas. . . . When the Almighty himself condescends to address mankind in their own language, his meaning, luminous though it must be, is rendered dim and doubtful, by the cloudy medium through which it is communicated."... | |
 | Scott J. Kester - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 146 pages
...address the House. In The Federalist No. 37, Madison explored the theme of language and its imperfection. "When the Almighty himself condescends to address...doubtful, by the cloudy medium through which it is communicated."28 A bit later on in this essay, Madison called upon the miraculous as an explanation... | |
 | Kevin J. Hayes - Literary Collections - 2008 - 653 pages
...every complex idea, or so correct as not to include many equivocally denoting different ideas. . . . When the Almighty himself condescends to address mankind...luminous as it must be, is rendered dim and doubtful" (Cooke 1961, 64, 236-237). Madison's admission of the uncertainty of all language became acceptable... | |
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... the definition of them may be rendered inaccurate, by the inaccuracy of the terms in which it is delivered. And this unavoidable inaccuracy must be greater or less, according to the complexity and novelty of the objects defined. 
