 | James Boswell - 1923 - 142 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...than another, will want words of larger meaning.' (a) I hope to be pardoned for this digression, (a) Idler, No. 70. 68 wherein I pay a just tribute of... | |
 | 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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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... 
