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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... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius - Page 280
by Samuel Johnson - 1810
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An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of ...

James Boswell - 1768 - 426 pages
...them, but I have found a fufficlcnt anfwer in a general remark in /> one of his excellent papers. ' Difference of thoughts will produce difference of...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...
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An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to that Island : and Memoirs of ...

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....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Idler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 442 pages
...directs one of his pupils to tbirJ: with the wife, tut Jpcak with the -vulgar. This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of...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...
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The Idler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...directs one of his pupils to think with the wife, but Jpeak with the vulgar. This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of...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...
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The Idler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...one of his pupils to think ru;ith the -wife, but Jfeak with the "vulgar. This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of...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...
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Harrison's British Classicks: The Idler. Fitz Osbornes Letters. Shenstones ...

1787 - 528 pages
...the wife, int J^eai with tie vulgar. This is í piccept fpecious enough, but notalwavt pi iclicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of...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...
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The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Volume 1

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...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

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...
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 52

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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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

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...
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