 | James Boswell - 1768 - 426 pages
...a fufficlcnt anfwer in a general remark in /> one of his excellent papers. ' Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks...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... | |
 | 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...than " another, will want words of larger meaning; he that thinks *' with more fubtilty, will feek for terms of more nice difcrimi** nation." In this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 442 pages
...the -vulgar. This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks...extent than another will want words of larger meaning ; he that thinks with more iubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrimination ; and where is... | |
 | 1787 - 528 pages
...tie vulgar. This is í piccept fpecious enough, but notalwavt pi iclicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks...extent than another will want words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more luhtilty wiU feck for terms oï move \\\« and \v\ute \» Л ire but the images... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...the "vulgar. This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks...extent than another will want words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrimination ; and where is the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...with the vulgar. This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks...extent than another will want words of larger meaning ,. he that thinks with more fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrimination ; and where is... | |
 | 1790 - 694 pages
...the fécond plea, the greater diftinctnefa of lignification. " Difference of thoughts," he fays, " will produce difference of language: he that thinks...extent than another, will want words of larger meaning ; he that thinks with more fubtilty, will fetk termi of more nice difcriminition." In this argument... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 pages
...they are evidently an advantage, for without them his ftately ideas would be confined and cramped. " He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning 5 .'* He once told me, that he had formed his ftyle upon that of Sir 'William Temple, and upon Chambers's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...they are evidently an advantage, for without them his ftately ideas would be confined and cramped. " He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning5." He once told me, that he had formed his ftyle upon that of Sir William Temple, and upon... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...they are evidently an advantage, for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped. ' He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning'.' He once told me, that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple', and upon Chambers 's... | |
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That some of them have been adopted by him unnecessarily, may perhaps be allowed ; but in general they are evidently an advantage, for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped. "He that thinks with more extent than another, will want... 
