 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...  Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - 32 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1774 - 375 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 1755 - 716 ページ
...but too much known, to be happily illufirated. To explain, requires the ufe of terms lefs abflrufc than that which is to be explained, and fuch terms cannot always be found i for aa nothing can be provrd but by fuppofing fome. thing intuitively known, and evident without... | |
 | 1755 - 694 ページ
...be not only too little, but too much known, to be happily illuftra- be expefted iu ways be found ; proved, but by fuppofing fomething intuitively known,...a definition. Other words there are, of which the fenfe is too fubtle and evanefcent to be fixed in a paraphrafe. Such are all thofe which are by the... | |
 | SERVERAL HANDS - 1755 - 552 ページ
...for as nothing can be proved but by fuppofing fome* explain, requires the ufe of terms Ids abftrufe than that ' which is to be explained, and fuch terms cannot always be * thing intuitively known, and evident without proof, fo no* thing can be defined but by the ufe of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1768 - 1002 ページ
...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 ページ
...little, but too much known, to be happily Hluftrated. To explain, requires the Ufe of Terms lefe abfbufe than that which is to be explained ; and fuch Terms...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 ページ
...but too much known, to be happily illuftnited. To explain, requires the ufe of terms lefs abftrufe than that which is to be explained, and fuch terms...nothing can be defined but by the ufe of words too Main to admit a definition. ' Other words there are, of which the fenfe is too fubrle and evaneicent... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 ページ
...^ which we are furnifhed by his own Preface. " To explain, requires the ufe of terms lefs abftrufe than that which is to be explained, and fuch terms...defined but by the ufe of words too plain to admit of definition. Sometimes eafier words are changed into harder; as, burial, into fepulture or interment;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 ページ
...Preface. '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 but by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 ページ
...Preface. '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 but by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 ページ
..." 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 but by... | |
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