 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...superfluous, as a paralogical for an unreasonable doubt ; and some so obscure, that they conceal his meaning rather than explain it, as arthritical analogies for...animals in the place of joints. — His style is, iudeed, a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 518 pages
...superfluous, as a paralogical for an unreasonable doubt ; and some so obscure, that they conceal his meaning rather than explain it, as arthritical analogies for...some animals in the place of joints. — His style isj indeed, a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought toge-ther from distant... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 504 pages
...superfluous, as a paralogical for an unreasonable doubt; and some so obscure, that they conceal his meaning rather than explain it, as arthritical analogies for parts that serve some animals in the place of joints.—His style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 540 pages
...superfluous, as a paralogical, for an unreasonable doubt; and some so obscure, that they conceal his meaning rather than explain it, as arthritical analogies,...tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous wards, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, ^, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...they conceal his meaning rather than explain it, as arlhriiical analogies, for parts that serve some 1 animals in the place of joints. His style is, indeed,...regions, with terms originally appropriated to one an, and drawn by violence into tbe servie« of another. ' He must, however, be confessed to have aug'... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...as a " paralogical," for an unreasonable doubt; and some so obscure, that they conceal his meaning rather than explain it, as " arthritical analogies,"...is, indeed, a tissue of many languages, a mixture of heterogenous words brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...doubt; and some so obscure, that they conceal his meaning rather than explain it, as " arlhritical analogies," for parts that serve some animals in the...is, indeed, a tissue of many languages, a mixture of heterogenous words brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...commenlality, for the state of many living at the same table ; paralogical, for an unreasonable doubt ; and arthritical analogies, for parts that serve some animals in the place of joints ; besides a host of other pedantries to even less purpose ; so that his style in some parts is rather... | |
 | 1838 - 1056 pages
...author has committed, not by idleness or negligence, but for want of Boyle's or Newton's philosophy." " His style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages —...appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the •errice of another. He must, however, be confessed to hare augmented our philosophical diction; and,... | |
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His style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the service of another. 
