 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 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." t He once told me, that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple, and upon Chambers's... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 482 pages
...them, but I have found a sufficient answer in a general remark in one of his excel lent 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 702 pages
...they can then follow without a guide. VOL. IV M The Guardian directs one of his pupils to think ivith the wise, but speak with the vulgar. This is a precept...words of larger meaning ; he that thinks with more subtlety will seek for terms of more nice discrimination : and where is the wonder, since words are... | |
 | Alexander Nicolas De Menil - 1897 - 572 pages
...distinctness of signification : " Difference of thoughts," he says, " will produce difference of language : be that thinks with more extent than another, will want...words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtility, will seek for terms of more nice discrimination." In this argument there is certainly some... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...own power, to have the way to truth pointed out which they can then follow without a guide. VOL. IV M The Guardian directs one of his pupils to think with...words of larger meaning ; he that thinks with more subtlety will seek for terms of more nice discrimination : and where is the wonder, since words are... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 668 pages
...own power, to have the way to truth pointed out which they can then follow without a guide. VOL. IV M The Guardian directs one of his pupils to think with...words of larger meaning ; he that thinks with more subtlety will seek for terms of more nice discrimination : and where is the wonder, since words are... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 pages
...wild horse without a bridle ride." COLLEY GIBBER. Love's Last Shift, Act III., Sc. I., last lines. " He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning." DR. S. JOHNSON. The Idler, No. 7o. " He that, to his prejudice, will do A noble action and a gen'rous... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 632 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 - 1900 - 922 pages
...they are evidently an advantage, for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped. " irresistible. My wife went to the Hummums (it is a place where people get themse t He once told me that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple, and upon Chambers's... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1904 - 136 pages
...to the use of antiquated and hard words, for which Johnson was censured, he says in Idler No. 90, " He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning." 18 30-a2. brilliancy . . . eloquence . . . humour. Johnson wrote many of these discourses so hastily,... | |
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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... 
