 | James Boswell, Andrew Erskine - 1879 - 288 pages
...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...than another, will want words of larger meaning." t I hope to be pardoned for this digression, wherein I pay a just tribute of veneration and gratitude... | |
 | James Boswell - 1880 - 488 pages
...they are evidently an advantage ; foi 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.] He once told me, that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple, and... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 pages
...Dictionary absolutely necessary. JOHNSON'S own words are a sufficient reply to all such criticisms: "Difference of thoughts will produce difference of...extent than another will want words of larger meaning." No man ever lived who had a greater fund of wit and humour, of keen satire and brilliant retort. Under... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 744 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." l He once told me, that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple, and upon Chambers's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 492 pages
...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 mean1ng.' which he criticised the Latinity of my Thesis, and having been told by somebody that he was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 490 pages
...silent admiration. BOSWELL. See Boswell's Hebrides, Oct. 19, 1773, and Johnson's Works, ix. 145. 4 ' He that thinks with more extent than another will want words of larger meaning.' Ante, i. 218. Monboddo 174 THE BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA. [ADIT??. Monboddo admires, ' We were now treading... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 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 meaning2.' He once told me, that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple3, and upon... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 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 - 1889 - 558 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 - 1889 - 574 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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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... 
