 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...adoption of so many Latin polysyllables, are harmony and precision. " Where common words," he remarks, " were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in...familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to known objects and popular ideas ; but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers."*... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...adoption of so many Latin polysyllables, are harmony and precision. " Where common words," he remarks, " were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in...familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to known objects and popular ideas ; but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers."*... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...adoption of so many Latin polysyllables, are harmony and precision. " Where common words," he remarks, " were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in...familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to known objects and popular ideas ; but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers."*... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...1 have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence. When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less -distinct in their signification, I have familiarised Ihe terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...structure, and words derived from the learned language!;. His own account of the matter is, " When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas." But he forgot the observation... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...structure, and words derived from the learned languages." His own account of the matter is, " When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas." But he forgot the observation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 506 pages
...structure, and words derived from the learned languages. His own account of the matter is, " When " common words were less pleasing to the " ear, or less distinct in their signification, I " familiarized the terms of philosophy, by " applying them to popular ideas." But he forgot the observation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...simplicity of common life. But let us attend to what he himself says in his concluding paper: "When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarised the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas."s And, as to the second part... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 390 pages
...I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence. When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarised the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 422 pages
...I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence. When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less...philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have 396 THE RAMBLER. No. 208. rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers ; for I believe... | |
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When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized the 'terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas. 
