| 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... | |
| James Boswell - 1791 - 564 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 meaning5." He once told me, that he had formed his ftyle upon that of Sir William Temple, and upon... | |
| Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 pages
...thoughts," fays he, " will produce difference, of ** language. He that thinks with more " extent " extent than another will want words of " larger meaning. He that thinks with " more fubtilty will feck for terms of more " nice difcrirnination." It is certain, that paflages fometimes... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 pages
...with more fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrim'matiort ; and where is the wonder, lince words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the originals ihould not know the copies ) Yet vanity inclines us to find faults any where rather than... | |
| 1797 - 522 pages
...with mor: fubtihy will feck for terms- of wore nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, rlnce words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the originali ihould not know the copies ? Yet vanity inclines us to find faults any where rather than... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 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 - 1799 - 640 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 Temple1, and upon Chambers's Proposal... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 432 pages
...with more fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrimination ; and where is the wonder, fmce words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the original mould not know the copies ? Yet vanity inclines us to find faults any where rather than in ourfelves.... | |
| 1803 - 222 pages
...but speak with the vulgar.' This is a precept specious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He...but the images of things, that he who never knew the originals should not know the copies ? Yet vanity inclines us to find faults any where rather than... | |
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