 The proper force of words lies not in the words themselves, but in their application. A word may be a finesounding word, of an unusual length, and very imposing from its learning and novelty, and yet in the connection in which it is introduced may be...  Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongueper Francis Grose - 1823 - 245 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pàgines
...and measures. The proper force of words lies not in the words themselves, but in their application. A word may be a fine-sounding word, of an unusual...not pomp or pretension, but the adaptation of the expression to the idea that clenches a writer's meaning : — as it is not the size or glossiness of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pàgines
...and measures. The proper force of words lies not in the words themselves, but in their application. A word may be a fine-sounding word, of an unusual...in which it is introduced, may be quite pointless 190 ON FAMILIAU STYLE. I and irrelevant. It is not pomp or pretension, but the adaptation of the expression... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 530 pàgines
...and measures. The proper force of words lies not in the words themselves, but in their application. A word may be a finesounding word, of an unusual length,...irrelevant. It is not pomp or pretension, but the adaptalion of the expression to the idea that clenches a writer's meaning: — as it is not the size... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 pàgines
...and measures. The proper force of words lies not in the words themselves, but in their application. A word may be a fine-sounding word, of an unusual...not pomp or pretension, but the adaptation of the expression to the idea that clenches a writer's meaning : — as it is not the size or glossiness of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 pàgines
...of words lies not in the words themselves, but in ilieir application. A word may he a line-sounding word, of an unusual length, and very imposing from...connection in which it is introduced, may be quite i. but tin ••!• as me pegs and nans are as necessary iu building as the larger timbers, and more... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1903 - 384 pàgines
...English. . . . The proper force of words lies not in the words themselves, but in their application. A word may be a finesounding word, of an unusual length,...not pomp or pretension, but the adaptation of the expression to the idea that clenches a writer's meaning . . . There are those who hoard up and make... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 546 pàgines
...and measures. The proper force of words lies not in the words themselves, but in their application. A word may be a fine-sounding word, of an unusual...not pomp or pretension, but the adaptation of the expression to the idea that clenches a writer's meaning : — as it is not the size or glossiness of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 544 pàgines
...not in the words themselves, but in their application. A word may be a fine-sounding word, of~an~~ unusual length, and very imposing from its learning...not pomp or pretension, but the adaptation of the expression to the idea that clenches a writer's meaning : — as it is not the size or glossiness of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1905 - 468 pàgines
...and measures. The proper force of words lies not in the words themselves, but in their application. A word may be a fine-sounding word, of an unusual...yet in the connection in which it is introduced may he quite pointless and irrelevant. It is not pomp or pretension, but the adaptation of the expression... | |
 | G. Clifford Dent - 1914 - 312 pàgines
...and measures. ' The proper force of words lies not in the words themselves, but in their application. A word may be a fine-sounding word, of an unusual...imposing from its learning and novelty, and yet in the connexion in which it is introduced may be quite pointless and irrelevant. It is not pomp or pretension,... | |
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