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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay - Page 589
by Samuel Johnson - 1825
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

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...
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Tracts on Political and Other Subjects, Volume 3

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...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

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...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose ..., Volume 2

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...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

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...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ...

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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

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....
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Select British Classics, Volume 10

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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