| Samuel Johnson - 1767 - 366 sider
...with more fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrlmination ; and where is the wonder, fince words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the originals fhould not know the copies ? YET vanity inclines us to find faults any where rather than... | |
| James Boswell - 1768 - 424 sider
...remark in one of his ex* cellent papers. ' Difference of thought^ will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent 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.... | |
| James Boswell - 1768 - 426 sider
...remark in /> one of his excellent papers. ' Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 sider
...fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another will...words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrimination ; and where is the wonder, iince words are... | |
| Royal Irish Academy - 1787 - 432 sider
...diftinctneft of fignification. " Difference of thoughts," he fays, " will produce " difference of language : he that thinks with more extent than " another, will...words of larger meaning; he that thinks *' with more fubtilty, will feek for terms of more nice difcrimi** nation." In this argument there is certainly... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 442 sider
...fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another will...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... | |
| 1787 - 528 sider
...fpecious enough, but notalwavt pi iclicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another will...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 - 1787 - 432 sider
...fpecious enough, but not always practicable. Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another will...words of larger meaning ,. he that thinks with more fubtilty will feek for terms of more nice difcrimination ; and where is the wonder, fince words are... | |
| 1787 - 750 sider
...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... | |
| 1790 - 694 sider
...diftinctnefa of lignification. " Difference of thoughts," he fays, " will produce difference of language: he that thinks with more extent than another, will...words of larger meaning ; he that thinks with more fubtilty, will fetk termi of more nice difcriminition." In this argument there is certainly fome degree... | |
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