| Samuel Johnson - 1761 - Počet stránok 302
...directs one of his pupils itthink with the wife, but fpeak with the vulgar.. This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of...of language. He that thinks. with more extent than anotherwill want words of larger meaning ; be that thinks with mor«j fubtilty will feek for terms... | |
| James Boswell - 1768 - Počet stránok 426
...them, but I have found a fufficlcnt anfwer 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. (<z) x I hope to be pardoned for this digrcffion, wherein I pay a juft tribute of veneration and gratitude... | |
| James Boswell - 1768 - Počet stránok 424
...fufficiepl; 41^ fwer in a general remark in one of his ex* cellent papers. ' Difference of thought^ will produce difference of language. He that thinks...than another, will want words of larger meaning.' (a) -j3 ,, ^ I hope to be pardoned for this digreiHon,; wherein I pay a juft tribute of veneration.... | |
| Joseph Towers - 1786 - Počet stránok 146
...writers whofe productions were better adapted to their capacities. " Difference of thoughts," fays he, " will produce difference of " language. He that thinks...with more " extent than another will want words of " largermeaning. He that thinks with more '' fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice " difcrimination."... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - Počet stránok 442
...dirccts one of his pupils to tbimt with the wife-, but /peak with the vulgar. This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of...words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrimination ; and where is the wonder, fincc words are... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - Počet stránok 432
...directs one of his pupils to think with the wife, but Jpeak with the vulgar. This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of...words of larger meaning,. he that thinks with more fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrimination ; and where is the wonder, fince words are... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - Počet stránok 430
...one of his pupils to think ru;ith the -wife, but Jfeak with the "vulgar. This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of...words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrimination ; and where is the wonder, iince words are... | |
| 1787 - Počet stránok 528
...the wife, int J^eai with tie vulgar. This is í piccept fpecious enough, but notalwavt pi iclicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of...words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more luhtilty wiU feck for terms oï move \\\« and \v\ute \» Л ÏOI ire but the images of things, that... | |
| 1787 - Počet stránok 724
...Difference of thoughts," fays he, " will produce difference of language. He that thinks with larger extent than another, will want words of larger meaning. He that thinks more fubtilty will feck for terms of more nice difcrimination." It is certain, that puflages fometimes... | |
| James Boswell - 1791 - Počet stránok 556
...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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