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" 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 - Página 360
1823
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A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the ...

Samuel Johnson - 1768 - 1002 páginas
...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...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volumen2

Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 páginas
...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...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volumen2

Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 páginas
...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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tracts

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 páginas
...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...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...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;...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ...

James Boswell - 1799 - 496 páginas
...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...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...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;...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 páginas
...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...
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 páginas
...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...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volumen1

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 páginas
...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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