 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, be then transfers his consideration from words to sounds,...he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible. Idler, vol. i, p. *oz. AGRICULTURE. Nothing can more fully prove the ingratitude of mankind (a crime... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 410 pages
...his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to sounds, from sentences to periods, and as he grow* more elegant becomes less intelligible. It is difficult to enumerate every species of authon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to...sentences, whose notions are delivered in the lump, and arc, like uncoined bullion, of more weight than use ; the liberal illustrator, who shows by examples... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to...elegant becomes less intelligible. It is difficult toenumerate every species of authors whose labours counteract themselves ; the man of exuberance and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 488 pages
...his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to...and copiousness, who diffuses every thought through »o many diversities of expression, that it is lost like water in a mist ; the ponderous dictator of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 pages
...his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to...is difficult to enumerate every species of authors whese labours counteract themselves ; the man of exuberance and copiousness, who diffuses every thought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pages
...his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to...as he grows more elegant becomes less intelligible. so many diversities of expression, that it is lost like water in a mist; the ponderous dictator of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pages
...his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to...as he grows more elegant becomes less intelligible. so many diversities of expression, that it is lost like water in a mist ; the ponderous dictator of... | |
 | 1833 - 736 pages
...when he exposes the terrific diction in No. 36 of the same work. He says, " Every thought is diffused through so many diversities of expression, that it is lost like water in a mist." Of the latter fault take the following example. It is in her first volume. " The social powers of pleasing... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to...grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible.— Ib. 294. Of nations as of individuals, the first blessing is independence ; neither the man nor the... | |
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... and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired; but when once he begins to contrive how his sentiments may be received, not with most ease... 
