 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...they arc evidently an advantage; j fat without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped. " He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning." [Idler, No. 70.] * He once told me, that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple, and... | |
 | Education - 1851 - 502 pages
...with the vulgar; this is a precept specious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks...extent than another will want words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtlety will seek for terms of more nice discrimination ; and where is the... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1860 - 496 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." [Idler, No. 70.] He once told me, that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple, and... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...they are evidently an advantage; for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped. istory of Gustavus Adolphus,' he much commended [Idler, No. 70.] 2 He once told me, that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 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 brjrer meaning." [Idler, No. 70.] 2 He once told me* that he had formed his style upon that of Sir... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...they are evidently an advantage, for without them his stately ideas would be confmed 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1879 - 302 pages
...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." f I hope to be pardoned for this digression, wherein I pay a just tribute of veneration and gratitude... | |
 | James Boswell, Andrew Erskine - Corsica (France : Region) - 1879 - 284 pages
...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." f I hope to be pardoned for this digression, wherein I pay a just tribute of veneration and gratitude... | |
 | James Hay - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1884 - 400 pages
...necessary. JOHNSON'S own words are a sufficient reply to all such criticisms: "Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks...extent than another will want words of larger meaning." No man ever lived who had a greater fund of wit and humour, of keen satire and brilliant retort. Under... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 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." l He once told me, that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple, and upon Chambers's... | |
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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... 
