 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 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 a larger meaning11." He once told me, that he had formed his style upon that of sir William Temple,... | |
 | 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 - 650 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 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 a larger meaning3." He No^o once told me, that lie had formed word not authorized by former writers;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 402 pages
...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...than another, will want words of larger meaning." Last Day with Paoli. The last day which I spent with Paoli appeared of inestimable value. I thought... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 460 pages
...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...than another, will want words of larger meaning." Last Day with Paoli. The last day which I spent with Paoli appeared of inestimable value. I thought... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 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." [Idler, No. 70.] (i) He Milton; for narcotic and vulnerary, Browne; for germination, Bacon, and so... | |
 | 1835 - 742 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." To these observations of Boswell, Mr. Croker has added the following words : — " This is a truism... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...they are evidently an advantage, for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped. " a larger meaning :l." He N1er»0 once told me, that lie had formed word not authorized by former writer*;... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...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...than another, will want words of larger meaning." Last Day ivith Paoli, The last day which I spent with Paoli appeared of inestimable value. I thought... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 pages
...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...than another, will want words of larger meaning." Last Day with Paoli. The last day which I spent with Paoli appeared of inestimable value. I thought... | |
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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... 
