 | R. ABERCROMBIE M.A - 1885 - 1098 pages
...good ones you gave before. 12. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing tot 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 iu speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both, whereas common... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 268 pages
...Percinal. From labor health, from health contentment springs.— BeattU. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and scarcity of words ; for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt,... | |
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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... 
