 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...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 280by Samuel Johnson - 1810Full view - About this book
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...Language-structure and its Influence on the Mental Development of Mankind (trans. P. Heath), p. 54 2:61 He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning. Samuel Johnson, 1758, The Idler, no. 70 2:62 This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man... | |
 | James Boswell - 2006 - 302 pages
...answer to them; but I have found a sufficient answer in a general remark in one of his excellent papers: Difference of thoughts will produce difference of...more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning.'1 I hope to be pardoned for this digression, wherein I pay a just tribute of veneration and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 544 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... | |
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