 | Samuel Johnson - 1767 - 366 pages
...with more fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrlmination ; and where is the wonder, fince words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the originals fhould not know the copies ? YET vanity inclines us to find faults any where rather than... | |
 | James Boswell - 1768 - 426 pages
...have found a fufficlcnt anfwer in a general remark in /> one of his excellent papers. ' Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He...than another, •will want words of larger meaning. (<z) x I hope to be pardoned for this digrcffion, wherein I pay a juft tribute of veneration and gratitude... | |
 | James Boswell - 1768 - 424 pages
...fufficiepl; 41^ fwer in a general remark in one of his ex* cellent papers. ' Difference of thought^ will produce difference of language. He that thinks...than another, will want words of larger meaning.' (a) -j3 ,, ^ I hope to be pardoned for this digreiHon,; wherein I pay a juft tribute of veneration.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...but Jpeak with the vulgar. This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He...words of larger meaning ,. he that thinks with more fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrimination ; and where is the wonder, fince words are... | |
 | 1787 - 528 pages
...int J^eai with tie vulgar. This is í piccept fpecious enough, but notalwavt pi iclicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He...words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more luhtilty wiU feck for terms oï move \\\« and \v\ute \» Л ire but the images of things, that he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 442 pages
...tut Jpcak with the -vulgar. This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He...words of larger meaning ; he that thinks with more iubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrimination ; and where is the wonder, fince words are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...but Jfeak with the "vulgar. This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He...words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrimination ; and where is the wonder, iince words are... | |
 | Royal Irish Academy - 1787 - 432 pages
...on the fecond plea, the greater diftinctneft of fignification. " Difference of thoughts," he fays, " will produce " difference of language : he that thinks...words of larger meaning; he that thinks *' with more fubtilty, will feek for terms of more nice difcrimi** nation." In this argument there is certainly... | |
 | 1787 - 750 pages
...Difference of thoughts," lays he, " will produce difference of language. He that thinks with larger extent than another, will want words of larger meaning. He that thinks more fubtilty will feck for terms of more nice difcrimination." It is certnin, that paflages fometimes... | |
 | 1790 - 694 pages
...the fécond plea, the greater diftinctnefa of lignification. " Difference of thoughts," he fays, " will produce difference of language: he that thinks...words of larger meaning ; he that thinks with more fubtilty, will fetk termi of more nice difcriminition." In this argument there is certainly fome degree... | |
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Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning... 
