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 - Página 32por Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 375 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| James Boswell - 1821 - 388 páginas
..." 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 - 1822 - 514 páginas
..." 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 páginas
...supposing something intuitively known, and evident without proof, so nothing can be defined but by 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 fixed in a paraphrase; such are all those which are by the... | |
| 1823 - 704 páginas
...Dictionary, " 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 páginas
...supposing something intuitively known, and evident without proof, so nothing can be defined but by the use of words too plain to admit a definition. Other words there are, of which the sense is too subtile and evanescent to be fixed in a paraphrase; such are all those which are by the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 páginas
...something intuitively known, and evident without proof, so nothing can be defined but by the use of i words too plain to admit a definition. Other words there are, of which the sense is too subtile and evanescent to be fixed in a paraphrase ; such are all those which are by the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 páginas
...illustrated. 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 - 1826 - 440 páginas
..." 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 - 1827 - 622 páginas
..." To explain, requires the use of terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained, and such carrying on a dialogue about something which engaged them earnes supposing something intuitively known, and evident without proof, so nothing can be defined but by... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 604 páginas
..." 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 denned but by the... | |
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