Besides many ideas have never been at all presented to the senses of any men but by words, as God, angels, devils, heaven, and hell, all of which have however a great influence over the passions.

Thirdly, by words we have it in our power to make such _combinations_ as we cannot possibly do otherwise.

By this power of combining we are able, by the addition of well-chosen circumstances, to give a new life and force to the simple object.

In painting we may represent any fine figure we please; but we never can give it those enlivening touches which it may receive from words.

To represent an angel in a picture, you can only draw a beautiful young man winged: but what painting can furnish out anything so grand as the addition of one word, "the angel of the _Lord_"?
It is true, I have here no clear idea; but these words affect the mind more than the sensible image did; which is all I contend for.