 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 - Page 661790Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1767 - 366 pages
...with the vulgar, This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks...larger meaning ; he that thinks with more fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrlmination ; and where is the wonder, fince words are but the images... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, Scottish - 1768 - 426 pages
...a fufficlcnt anfwer 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. (<z) x I hope to be pardoned for this digrcffion, wherein I pay a juft tribute of veneration and gratitude... | |
 | James Boswell - Corsica - 1768 - 424 pages
...fufficiepl; 41^ fwer in a general remark in one of his ex* cellent papers. ' Difference of thought^ will produce difference of language. He that thinks...than another, will want words of larger meaning.' (a) -j3 ,, ^ I hope to be pardoned for this digreiHon,; wherein I pay a juft tribute of veneration.... | |
 | Royal Irish Academy - Ireland - 1787 - 432 pages
...in his Idler, he 'infifts largely on the fecond plea, the greater diftinctneft of fignification. " Difference of thoughts," he fays, " will produce "...meaning; he that thinks *' with more fubtilty, will feek for terms of more nice difcrimi** nation." In this argument there is certainly fome degree of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...with the vulgar. This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks...meaning ,. he that thinks with more fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrimination ; and where is the wonder, fince words are bup the images... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...the "vulgar. This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks...larger meaning; he that thinks with more fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrimination ; and where is the wonder, iince words are but the images... | |
 | 1787 - 528 pages
...tie vulgar. This is í piccept fpecious enough, but notalwavt pi iclicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks...words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more luhtilty wiU feck for terms oï move \\\« and \v\ute \» Л ire but the images of things, that he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 442 pages
...the -vulgar. This is a precept fpecious 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 iubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrimination ; and where is the wonder, fince words are... | |
 | English poetry - 1787 - 750 pages
...Difference of thoughts," lays he, " will produce difference of language. He that thinks with larger extent than another, will want words of larger meaning. He that thinks more fubtilty will feck for terms of more nice difcrimination." It is certnin, that paflages fometimes... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 pages
...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 meaning 5 .'* He once told me, that he had formed his ftyle upon that of Sir 'William Temple, and upon Chambers's... | |
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