 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 Seiten
...becaufe we do HOC not all agree to cenfure the fame terms as low. No word is naturally or intrinfically meaner than another; our opinion therefore of words, as of other things arbitrarily and caprjcioufly eftablifhed, depends wholly upon accident and cuftom. The cottager thinks thofe apartments... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 422 Seiten
...RAMBLER. 165 ;iot all agree to cenfure the fame terms as low. No word is naturally or intrinfically meaner than another ; our opinion therefore of words, as of other things arbitrarily and capricioufly eftablifhed, depends wholly upon accident and cuftom. The cottager thinks thofe apartments... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 Seiten
...becaufe we do not not all agree to cenfure the fame terms as low. No word is naturally or intrinfically meaner than another ; our opinion therefore of words, as of other things arbitrarily and capricioufly eftabiifhed, depends wholly upon accident and cuftom. The cottager thinks thofe apartments... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 Seiten
...Ke-aufe-w* do not all agree to ceniure the fame terms as low. No word is naturally or intrinfically meaner than another; our opinion therefore of words, as of other things arbitrarily ar,d eapricioufly eft.iblimed, depends .wholly upon accident and cuftom. The cottager thinks thofc... | |
 | 1803 - 268 Seiten
...offended by low terms, but are not disgusted alike by the same compositions, because we do not all agree to censure the same terms as low» No word is...therefore of words, as of other things, arbitrarily and capriciouly established, depends wholly upon accident and custom. The cottager thinks those apartments... | |
 | 1806 - 420 Seiten
...RAMBLER. i65 not all agree to cenfure the fame terms as low. No word is naturally or intrinfically meaner than another ; our opinion therefore of words, as of other things arbitrarily and capricioufly eftablifhed, depends wholly upon accident and cuftom. The cottager thinks thofe apartments... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 320 Seiten
...offended by low terms, but are not disgusted alike by the same compositions, because -we do not all agree to censure the same terms as low. No word is...apartments splendid and spacious, which an inhabitant of paltces will despise for their inelegance; and to him who has passed most of his hours with the delicate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 416 Seiten
...offended by low terms, but are not disgusted alike by the same compositions, because we do not not all agree to censure the same terms as low. No word is...our opinion therefore of words, as of other things ar-* bitrarily and capriciously established, depends wholly upon accident and custom. The cottager... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 414 Seiten
...offended by low terms, but are not disgusted alike by the same compositions, because we do not not all agree to censure the same terms as low. No word is...our opinion therefore of words, as of other things ar- / bitrarily and capriciously established, depends wholly upon accident and custom. The cottager... | |
 | 1822 - 370 Seiten
...-Decipit Frons prima multos, rara metis intelligit . • Qnod interiors condidit cura angulo. PBJEUR.VS. The tinsel glitter and the specious mien, Delude the...cottager thinks those apartments splendid and spacious \vhich an inhabitant of palaces will despise for their inelegance ; and to him who has passed most... | |
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No word is naturally or intrinsically meaner than another; our opinion therefore of words, as of other things arbitrarily and capriciously established, depends wholly upon accident and custom. 
