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" ... a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in; and these are always ready at the mouth : so people come faster out of... "
The Miniature - Page 221
by Solomon Grildrig - 1805 - 368 pages
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The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...

Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 514 pages
...and moft women, is owing to a fcarcity of matter, and a fcarcity of words ; for whoever is a mafter of language, and has a mind full of ideas, will be apt in fpeaking to hefitate upon the choice of both; whereas common fpeakers have only one fet of ideas.,...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's ..., Volume 5

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 pages
...j 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,...full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 14

Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 386 pages
...owing to a scarcity of matter, and a scarcity of words ; for whoever is a master of language and Las a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 6

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...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 common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 558 pages
...devotion. 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,...full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words...
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The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts ..., Volume 9

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 564 pages
...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,...full of ideas, will be. apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers hive only one set of ideas, and one set of words...
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Miscellaneous essays

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 562 pages
...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 has a mind full of ideas, will be apt ifl speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas,...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 4

1824 - 462 pages
...women, is owing," says Swift, "to a scarcity of words; for whoever is master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words...
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The Select Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing the Whole of His ..., Volume 1

Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 342 pages
...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 common speakers have only one set of ideas and one set of words to...
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The Laughing Philosopher: Being the Entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus ...

John Bull - 1825 - 782 pages
...devotion. 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,...full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words...
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