 with the vulgar. This is a precept fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another will want words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more fubtilty...  The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The idler - Page 280by Samuel Johnson - 1792Full view - About this book
 | 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) -j 3 ,, ^ I hope to be pardoned for this digreiHon,; wherein I pay a juft tribute of veneration.... | |
 | James Boswell - Corsica (France) - 1769 - 430 pages
...to them; but I have found a fufficient anfwer in a general remark jn one of his excellent papers : * Difference of thoughts will produce difference of...thinks with more extent than another, will want words pf larger meaning.' (a) I hope to be pardoned for thfe'digrefilon, wherein I pay a juft tribute of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 442 pages
...then follow without a guide. The Guardian dirccts one of his pupils to tbimt with the wife-, but /peak with the vulgar. This is a precept fpecious enough,...more nice difcrimination ; and where is the wonder, fincc words are but the images of things, That he who never knew the originals fhould not know the... | |
 | Joseph Towers - France - 1796 - 464 pages
...writers whofe productions were better adapted to their capacities. " Difference of thoughts/' fays he, " will produce difference, of *« language. He that...will feek for terms of more " nice difcrimination." It is certain, that paffages fometimes occur in his writings, which are not very intelligible to ordinary... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...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 1 , and upon Chambers's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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 1 .' He once told me, that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple', and upon Chambers's... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 210 pages
...directs one of his pupils to think with the wise, but speak with the vulgar. This is a precept specious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of...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... | |
 | English essays - 1803 - 222 pages
...one of his pupils ' to think with the wise, but speak with the vulgar.' This is a precept specious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 410 pages
...directs one of his pupils to think ttith the wise, but speak with the vulgar. This is a precept specious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 464 pages
...but speak with the vulgar. This is a precept spceious enough, but not always practicable. Differepce of thoughts will produce difference of language. He...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... | |
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