 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - Počet stránok 526
...wild horse without a bridle ride." COLLEY GIBBER. Love's Last Shift, Act III., Sc. I., last lines. " He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning." DR. S. JOHNSON. The Idler, No. 7o. " He that, to his prejudice, will do A noble action and a gen'rous... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - Počet stránok 638
...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 - 1900 - Počet stránok 928
...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." t He once told me that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple, and upon Chambers's... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1904 - Počet stránok 136
...to the use of antiquated and hard words, for which Johnson was censured, he says in Idler No. 90, " He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning." 18 30-a2. brilliancy . . . eloquence . . . humour. Johnson wrote many of these discourses so hastily,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - Počet stránok 136
...to the use of antiquated and hard words, for which Johnson was censured, he says in Idler No. 90, " He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning." 18 30-32. brilliancy . . . eloquence . . . humour. Johnson wrote many of these discourses so hastily,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - Počet stránok 152
...to the use of antiquated and hard words, for which Johnson was censured, he says in Idler No. 90, " He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning." 18 30-32. brilliancy . . . eloquence . . . humour. Johnson wrote many of these discourses so hastily,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - Počet stránok 1594
...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 V He once told me, that he had formed his 1 Yet his style did not escape the harmless shafts of pleasant... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1905 - Počet stránok 234
...restrained by tradition, had his own tendencies to extravagance of diction, and excused them by saying, " He that thinks with more extent than another will...words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtlety will seek for terms of more nice discrimination." Browne, with his instinct for reducing everything... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1905 - Počet stránok 238
...restrained by tradition, had his own tendencies to extravagance of diction, and excused them by saying, " He that thinks with more extent than another will...words of larger meaning ; he that thinks with more subtlety will seek for terms of more nice discrimination." Browne, with his instinct for reducing everything... | |
 | Royal Irish Academy - 1787 - Počet stránok 432
...on the fecond plea, the greater diftinctneft of fignification. " Difference of thoughts," he fays, " will produce " difference of language : he that thinks...words of larger meaning; he that thinks *' with more fubtilty, will feek for terms of more nice difcrimi** nation." In this argument there is certainly... | |
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He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning. 
