 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1917 - Počet stránok 488
...sense an embroidery, but part of the very texture of his thought. "Difference of thoughts," he said, "will produce difference of language. He that thinks...want words of larger meaning ; he that thinks with subtlety will seek for terms of more nice discrimination."2 As we read him and accustom our minds to... | |
 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - 1978 - Počet stránok 655
...one of his pupils "to think with the wise but speak with the vulgar." 3 This is a precept specious 4 enough, but not always practicable. Difference of...with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice 5 discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words are but the images of things, that he who never... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - Počet stránok 604
...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 - Počet stránok 303
...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... | |
 | 1790 - Počet stránok 684
...fignification. " Difference of thoughts," he fays, " will produce difference of language: he that thmki with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning ; he that thinks with more fubtilty, will feck terms .if more nice difcrimination." In tjhis argument there ia certainly fome... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - Počet stránok 338
...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 - 1820 - Počet stránok 544
...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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He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning. 
