| James Boswell - 1826 - Počet stránok 478
...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 a larger meaning k ." He once told me, that he had formed his style upon that of sir William Temple,... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - Počet stránok 428
...which they can then follow without a guide. The Guardian directs one of his pupils " to think with the wise, but speak with the vulgar." This is a precept...enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thought will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - Počet stránok 650
...95. Again, when Boswell quotes, as conclusive on this topic, JohnBOD'S own dictum in the Idler, — ' He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning,' the editor observes, — 1 This is a truism in the disguise of a sophism. " He that... | |
| James Boswell - 1833 - Počet stránok 1182
...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 a larger meaning3." He No^o once told me, that lie had formed word not authorized by former writers;... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - Počet stránok 402
...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." Last Day with Paoli. The last day which I spent with Paoli appeared of inestimable value. I thought... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - Počet stránok 460
...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." Last Day with Paoli. The last day which I spent with Paoli appeared of inestimable value. I thought... | |
| 1835 - Počet stránok 758
...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." To these observations of Boswell, Mr. Croker has added the following words : — " This is a truism... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - Počet stránok 366
...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." [Idler, No. 70.] (i) He Milton; for narcotic and vulnerary, Browne; for germination, Bacon, and so... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - Počet stránok 604
...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 a larger meaning :l." He N1er»0 once told me, that lie had formed word not authorized by former writer*;... | |
| 1835 - Počet stránok 742
...evidently an advantage ; for without them bis stately ideas would be confined and cramped. //- thai thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning." To these observations of Boswell, Mr. Croker has added the following words : — " This is a truism... | |
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