 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 pages
...thoughts," fays he, " will produce difference, of ** language. He that thinks with more " extent " extent than another will want words of " larger meaning. He that thinks with " more fubtilty will feck for terms of more " nice difcrirnination." It is certain, that paflages fometimes... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 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 Proposal... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 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 Temple1, and upon Chambers's Proposal... | |
 | 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 Proposal... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...word not authorized by former writers."* " Difference of thoughts," he observes in another place, " will produce difference of language : he that thinks...will seek for terms of more nice discrimination.'^ Had our author been writing on abstruse or scientific subjects, the use of Latin derivatives, and recondite... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...word not authorized by former writers."* " Difference of thoughts," he observes in another place, " will produce difference of language : he that thinks...will seek for terms of more nice discrimination.'^ Had our author been writing on abstruse or scientific subjects, the use of Latin derivatives, and recondite... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...word not authorized by former writers."* " Difference of thoughts," he observes in another place, " will produce difference of language : he that thinks with more extent than anolher, will want words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty, will seek for terms... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 644 pages
...195. Again, when Boswell quotes, as conclusive on this topic, Johnson's own dictum in the Idler, — ' He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning,' the editor observes, — ' This is a truism in the disguise of a sophism. " He that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...inquire, whether he is incommoded by the fault of the writer, or by his own. Every author does riot write for every reader; many questions are such as...want words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more'subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words... | |
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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... 
