Words, the proper medium for conveying the affections of the mind, i. 133.
  affect us in a manner very different from natural objects,
    painting, or architecture, i. 246.
  three sorts of them, i. 247.
  general words before ideas, i. 249.
  effect of them, i. 250.
  may affect without raising images, i. 252.
  this exemplified in the case of the poet Blacklock, i. 252.
  and of Saunderson, the mathematician, i. 253.
  how words influence the passions, i. 258.
  the only means by which many ideas have ever been at all
    presented to the senses, i. 259.
  the source of a great part of the mischiefs that vex the world, vi. 397.
  the world much influenced by them, xi. 172.

Writers, when they act in a body and with one direction, have
    great influence on the public mind, iii. 380

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