 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...synonimous ; a new term was not introduced, but because the former was thought inadequate : n/imes, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas Have many names. It was then necessary to use the proximate word, for the deficiency of single terms can very seldom be supplied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...exactly synonymous ; a new term was not introduced, but because the former was thought inadequate : names, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas have many names. It was then necessary to use the proximate word, for the deficiency of single terms can very seldom be supplied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...exactly synonimous ; a new term was not introduced, but because the former was thought inade-. quate : names, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas have many names. It was then necessary to use the proximate word, for the deficiency of single terms can very seldom be supplied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 pages
...exactly synonymous ; a new term was not introduced, but because the former was thought inadequate : names, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas have many names. It was then necessary to use the proximate word, for the deficiency of single terms can very seldom be supplied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...exactly ^--'Synonymous; a new term was not introduced, but because the former was thought inadequate: names, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas have many names. It was then necessary to use the proxi- 15 mate word, for the deficiency of single terms can very seldom be supplied... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...introduced, sometimes such as no other form of ex- but because the former was thought inpression can convey. e blood; To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, And every author's merit but The original sense of words is often It was then necessary to use the proximate driven out of use by... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...exactly synonymous ; a new term was not introduced, but because the former was thought inadequate: names, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas have many names. It was then necessary to use the proximate word, for the deficiency of single terms can very seldom be supplied... | |
 | W. F. Bolton - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1966 - 244 pages
...seldom exactly synonimous; a new term was not introduced, but because the former was thought inadequate: names, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas have many names. It was then necessary to use the proximate word, for the deficiency of single terms can very seldom be supplied... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 238 pages
...problem of defining simple words - "the idea signified by them has not more than one appellation . . . names, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas have many names" and this, in turn, suggested to him the inescapably diachronic, and metaphoric, nature of language:... | |
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Words are seldom exactly synonimous; a new term was not introduced, but because the former was thought inadequate: names, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas have many names. 
