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" ... a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. So people come faster out of... "
The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors - Page 208
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The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...

Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 514 pages
...and moft women, is owing to a fcarcity of matter, and a fcarcity of words ; for whoever is a mafter of language, and has a mind full of ideas, will be apt in fpeaking to hefitate upon the choice of both; whereas common fpeakers have only one fet of ideas.,...
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The Miniature, a Periodical Paper

Solomon Grildrig - 1805 - 412 pages
...as an argument in favour of their erudition. It is rather owing to a scarcity of matter and an equal scarcity of words; for whoever is a master of language,...full of ideas, will be apt in speaking, to hesitate in the choice of both: whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas and one set of words to cloth...
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The Miniature

Solomon Grildrig - 1805 - 390 pages
...as an argument in favour of their erudition. It is rather owing to a scarcity of matter and an equal scarcity of words; for whoever is a master of language,...full of ideas, will be apt in speaking, to hesitate in the choice of both : whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas and one set of words to...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 6

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...largest tribute Heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of...of words ; for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 14

Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 386 pages
...largest tribute Heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of...of words ; for whoever is a master of language and Las a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common...
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The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts ..., Volume 9

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 564 pages
...largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. The common fluency of speech in many men, ^and most women, is owing to a scarcity...upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers hive only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in ; and these are always ready at...
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Miscellaneous essays

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 562 pages
...largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most' women, is owing to a scarcity...language, and has a mind full of ideas, will be apt ifl speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas,...
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The Select Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing the Whole of His ..., Volume 1

Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 342 pages
...largest tribute Heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of...of words ; for whoever is a master of language and hath a mind full of ideas will be apt in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both, whereas common...
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The Gossip; or, Literary, domestic, and useful recorder, by Francis Fiddlewood

1826 - 492 pages
...women, is owing," says Swift, " to a scarcity of words ; for whoever is master of language, and haft a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common'speakeri have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clotho them in, and these are always...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 9

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 pages
...the serious, and pleasantries for admirers of points of wit. Garth. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter, and a scarcity of words ; for whoever is master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice...
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