 | Heinrich Schmidt - 1905 - 76 pages
...Zusammentragen aller möglichen Wortarten nicht ohne Einfluss auf seine Diktion geblieben ist. d) Neubildungen. '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 - 1909 - 562 pages
...perhaps, 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...them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers; for I believe that whoever knows the English tongue in its present... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1910 - 526 pages
...translate philosophy into popular language : the latter declared in the last number of The Rambler : " 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." When The Rambler ceased to... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...to the 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,...of philosophy by applying them to popular ideas." And as to the second part of this objection, upon a late careful revision of the work I can with confidence... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...to the 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,...of philosophy by applying them to popular ideas." And as to the second part of this objection, upon a late careful revision of the work I can with confidence... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...to the 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,...of philosophy by applying them to popular ideas." And as to the second part of this objection, upon a late careful revision of the work I can with confidence... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - English literature - 1914 - 346 pages
...made obscure." By way of justifying his own apparent violation of this law of clearness, he writes, " When common words were less pleasing to the ear or less distinct, I have familiarized terms of philosophy, applying them to popular ideas." In other words, he would... | |
 | William Hawley Davis - Authors, English - 1916 - 232 pages
...perhaps, 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...them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers; for I believe that whoever knows the English tongue in its present... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...unusual 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 significations, I familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas." But he... | |
 | Eleanore (Sister Mary) - American essays - 1923 - 284 pages
...perhaps, 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 significance, I have familiarized the terms of Philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have... | |
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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... 
