 ... hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. So people...  The Monthly Review - Page 4111842Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 514 pages
...and moft women, is owing to a fcarcity of matter, and a fcarcity of words ; for whoever is a mafter of language, and has a mind full of ideas, will be apt in fpeaking to hefitate upon the choice of both; whereas common fpeakers have only one fet of ideas.,... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - Authors, Irish - 1804 - 250 pages
...himself on his. death-bed. It is printed in his Works, vol. I o. CCVII. COMMON 'FLUENCY OF SPEECH. The common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.and a scarcity of .words, for whoever is master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas,... | |
 | Solomon Grildrig - English essays - 1805 - 412 pages
...as an argument in favour of their erudition. It is rather owing to a scarcity of matter and an equal scarcity of words; for whoever is a master of language,...full of ideas, will be apt in speaking, to hesitate in the choice of both: whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas and one set of words to cloth... | |
 | Solomon Grildrig - 1805 - 390 pages
...as an argument in favour of their erudition. It is rather owing to a scarcity of matter and an equal scarcity of words; for whoever is a master of language,...full of ideas, will be apt in speaking, to hesitate in the choice of both : whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas and one set of words to... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...ridiculed. Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most...of words ; for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 386 pages
...ridiculed. Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most...of words ; for whoever is a master of language and Las a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 564 pages
...ridiculed. Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. The common fluency of speech in many men, ^and most...upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers hive only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in ; and these are always ready at... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 562 pages
...ridiculed. Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most'...language, and has a mind full of ideas, will be apt ifl speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 342 pages
...ridiculed. Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most...of words ; for whoever is a master of language and hath a mind full of ideas will be apt in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both, whereas common... | |
 | 1826 - 492 pages
...women, is owing," says Swift, " to a scarcity of words ; for whoever is master of language, and haft a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common'speakeri have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clotho them in, and these are always... | |
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