...found a sufficient answer in a general remark in one of his excellent papers: 'Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks...than another, will want words of larger meaning.' (a) I hope to be pardoned for this digression, (a) Idler, No. 70. 68 wherein I pay a just tribute of...

...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...

...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...

...found a sufficient answer in a general remark in one of his excellent papers: Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks...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...

...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...