 To explain requires the use of terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained, and such terms cannot always be found; for as nothing can be proved but by supposing something intuitively known and evident without proof, so nothing can be defined...  The British Critic: A New Review - Page 3601823Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1768 - 1002 pages
...explain, requires the ule of terms lefs abftrufe than that which is to be cxp'aiiie.i, and fuch teinis cannot always be found ; for as nothing can be proved but by fuppoUng fometLing intui'.ively known, and evident without proof, fo nothing can be defined but by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pages
...To explain, requires the Ufe of Terms lefs abftrufe than that which is to be expia'ined ; and fuch Terms cannot always be found : For as nothing can be proved but by fuppofing fomething intuitively known and evident without Proof, fo nothing can be defined but by the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pages
...Hluftrated. To explain, requires the Ufe of Terms lefe abfbufe than that which is to be explained ; and fuch Terms cannot always be found : For as nothing can be proved but by fuppofmg fomet'hing intuitively known and evident without Proof, fo nothing can be defmed but by the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 pages
...illuftnited. To explain, requires the ufe of terms lefs abftrufe than that which is to be explained, and fuch terms cannot always be found ; for as nothing can be proved but by fuppofing fomething intuitively known, and evident without proof, fo nothing can be defined but by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...no other answer is necessary than that with which we are furnished by his own Preface. 'To explain, requires the use of terms less abstruse than that...defined but by the use of words too plain to admit of definition4. Sometimes easier words are changed into harder ; as, burial, into sepulture ex interment;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...no other answer is necessary than that with which we are furnished by his own Preface. " To explain, requires the use of terms less abstruse than that...defined but by the use of words too plain to admit of definition.' Sometimes easier words are changed into harder ; as, burial, into sepulture or interment... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...no other answer is necessary than that with which we are furnished by his own Preface. 'To explain, requires the use of terms less abstruse than that...defined but by the use of words too plain to admit of definition'. Sometimes easier words are changed into harder ; as, burial, into sepulture o\ interment;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 pages
...illuftrated. To explain, requires the ufe of terms lefs abftrufe than that which is to be explained, and fuch terms cannot always be found ; for as nothing can be proved but by fuppofing fomething intuitively known, and evident without proof, fo nothing can be defined but by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...THINGS. Tilings may Tie not only too little, T>ut too n>uch known, to. be happily illuStated. To explain, requires the use of terms less abstruse than that -which is to te explained, and such, termscannot always be found; for as nothing cant* proved but by supposing something... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...it ; things may be not only too little, but too- much known, to be happily illustrated. To explain, requires the use of terms less abstruse than that...the use of words too plain to admit a definition. Other words there are, of which the sense is too subtle and ( evanescent to be £xed in a paraphrase... | |
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