 ... sentiments will lose their efficacy, and the most splendid ideas drop their magnificence, if they are conveyed by words used commonly upon low and trivial occasions, debased by vulgar mouths and contaminated by inelegant applications. Truth indeed...  The Quarterly Review - Página 85editado por - 1908Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 páginas
...upon low and trivial occasion*, debased by vulgar mouths, and contaminated by inelegant applications. Truth indeed is always truth, and reason is always reason ; they have an intrinsick and unalterable value, and constitute that intellectual gold which defies destruction :... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 páginas
...only for himself. Ibid, vol. i, p. 108. ^ Truth is the basis of all excellence. Life of Cowley, Truth is always truth, and reason is always reason; they...gold may be so concealed in baser matter, that only a chemist can recover it; sense may be so hidden in unrefined and plebeian words, that none but philosophers... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 páginas
...low and trivial occasions, ' debased by vulgar mouths, and contaminated by inelegant applications. Truth Indeed is always truth, and reason is always reason ; they have an irctrinsick and unalterable value, and constitute that intellectual gold which defies destruction :... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 páginas
...upon low and trivial occasions, debased by vulgar mouths, and contaminated by inelegant applications. Truth indeed is always truth, and reason is always...destruction ; but gold may be so concealed in baser metal, that only a chymist can recover it ; sense may be so hidden in unrefined and plebeian words,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 páginas
...upon low and trivial occasions, debased by vulgar mouths, and contaminated by inelegant applications. Truth indeed is always truth, and reason is always reason ; they have an intrinsick and unalterable value, and constitute that intellectual gold which defies destruction :... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1809 - 428 páginas
...1809. [Vol. 1. REVIEW. Truth ii always truth, and reason is always reason ; these have an intriinick and unalterable value, and constitute that intellectual...gold may be so concealed in baser matter, that only a chemist can recover it ; sense may be so hidden in unrefined and plebeian words, that none but philosophers... | |
 | 1809 - 402 páginas
...1809. [Vol.1. REVIEW. Truth is always truth, and reason is always reason ; these have an intrinsick and unalterable value, and constitute that intellectual...gold may be so concealed in baser matter, that only a chemist can recover it ; sense may be so hidden in unrefined and plebeian words, that none but philosophers... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 páginas
...upon low and trivial occasions, debased by vulgar mouths, and cdntaurinated by inelegant applications. Truth indeed is always truth, and reason is always...none but philosophers can distinguish it; and both maybe so buried in impurities, as not ..• pay the cost of their extraction. The diction, being the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 páginas
...upon low and trivial occasions, debased by vulgar mouths, and contaminated by inelegant applications. Truth indeed is always truth, and reason is always...destruction ; but gold may be so concealed in baser matter, \ hiatter, that only a chymist can recover it ; sense * ' may be so hidden in unrefined and plebeian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 páginas
...upon low and trivial occasions, debased by vulgar mouths, and contaminated by inelegant applications. Truth indeed is always truth, and reason is always...matter, that only a chymist can recover it ; sense may D 4 be so hidden in unrefined and plebeian words that none but philosophers can distinguish it ; and... | |
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