 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 σελίδες
...owing to a scarcity of matter, and a scarcity 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 botlwhereas common speakers have only one set of idep and one set of words to clothe them in; and the... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 σελίδες
...speech they know to be useless — nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.— George Eliot. has ches, and heaven itself. — Jeremy Taylor. A person's...wedded love, mysterious law, true sonrcc of human month ; so people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the... | |
 | 1911 - 724 σελίδες
...owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words ; for whoever is a master of language and has a mind full of ideas will be apt in speaking to hesitate...one set of words to clothe them in, and these are ready at the mouth ; so people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty than when a crowd... | |
 | 1911 - 1024 σελίδες
...owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whoever is a master of language and has a mind full of ideas will be apt in speaking to hesitate...one set of words to clothe them in, and these are ready at the mouth; so people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty than when a crowd... | |
 | William Byrd Powell, Robert Safford Newton - 1911 - 724 σελίδες
...owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whoever is a master of language and has a mind full of ideas will be apt in speaking to hesitate...one set of words to clothe them in, and these are ready at the mouth; so people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty than when a crowd... | |
 | Gustav Wendt - 1911 - 352 σελίδες
...as the one critical point for English liberty. (Green.) 4. Whoever is a master of language, and has a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both. (Swift.) 5. During this part of his (Charles I.'s) reign, the provisions of the Petition of Right were... | |
 | Philander Priestley Claxton, James McGinniss - 1917 - 592 σελίδες
...scarcity of words ; for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common...ready at the mouth ; so people come faster out of church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door. — Jonathan Swift. Exposition by... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1917 - 482 σελίδες
...paused to select the choice word — the phrase best suited to the occasion. "Common speakers," he said, "have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in," and these are always ready on the lips. Because he holds the Dean's view sound to-day, the writer will venture to warn the readers... | |
 | Otto Jespersen - 1922 - 476 σελίδες
...owing to the scarcity of matter, and scarcity 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 : wheress common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in ; and... | |
 | Mrs. Martha Farr Purdon - 1923 - 304 σελίδες
...owing to a scarcity of matter, and a scarcity of words; for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to...set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in.—Swift. constrain (kon-stran'), vt To compel; force; urge. I feel constrained to express my appreciation.... | |
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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 a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas... 
