 That some of them have been adopted by him unnecessarily, may perhaps be allowed ; but in general 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...  The Scots Magazine - Stran 661790Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 564 strani
...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... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 strani
...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 occur in his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 strani
...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 - 1799 - 640 strani
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 strani
...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... | |
 | 1803 - 222 strani
...the vulgar.' This is a precept specious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks...words of larger meaning ; he that thinks with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination ; and where is the wonder, since words are... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 strani
...word not authorized by former writers."* " Difference of thoughts," he observes in another place, " will produce difference of language : he that thinks...words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty, will seek for terms of more nice discrimination.'^ Had our author been writing on abstruse... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 strani
...word not authorized by former writers."* " Difference of thoughts," he observes in another place, " will produce difference of language : he that thinks...words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty, will seek for terms of more nice discrimination.'^ Had our author been writing on abstruse... | |
 | 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 - 644 strani
...195. Again, when Boswell quotes, as conclusive on this topic, Johnson's own dictum in the Idler, — ' He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning,' the editor observes, — ' This is a truism in the disguise of a sophism. " He that... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 strani
...word not authorized by former writers."* " Difference of thoughts," he observes in another place, " will produce difference of language : he that thinks with more extent than anolher, will want words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty, will seek for terms... | |
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