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I mean only that inspiration seems to me to be necessary to give man the faculty of speech; to inform him that he may have speech; which I think he could no more find out without inspiration, than cows or hogs would think of such a faculty. WALKER. 'Do you think, Sir, that there are any perfect synonimes in any language? JOHNSON. 'Originally there were not; but by using words negligently, or in poetry, one word comes to be confounded with another.
To interpret a language by itself is very difficult; many words cannot be explained by synonimes, because the idea signified by them has not more than one appellation; nor by paraphrase, because simple ideas cannot be described.
Delany , writers both undoubtedly veracious , when true, honest, or faithful, might have been used. Yet, it must be owned, that none of these are hard or too big words; that custom would make them seem as easy as any others; and that a language is richer and capable of more beauty of expression, by having a greater variety of synonimes.
To interpret a language by itself is very difficult; many words cannot be explained by synonimes, because the idea signified by them has not more than one appellation; nor by paraphrase, because simple ideas cannot be described.
I mean only that inspiration seems to me to be necessary to give man the faculty of speech; to inform him that he may have speech; which I think he could no more find out without inspiration, than cows or hogs would think of such a faculty. WALKER. 'Do you think, Sir, that there are any perfect synonimes in any language? JOHNSON. 'Originally there were not; but by using words negligently, or in poetry, one word comes to be confounded with another.
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