Why, does he not tell us, wherein himself, or any one else shewed his Judgement in Deviating from the Rules of Art?
"An Essay on Criticism"
John Oldmixon
The Critical Smatterers do not charge him in those Places where Judgement was shewn in such Deviating, but where the Want of Judgement appeared in it.
"An Essay on Criticism"
John Oldmixon
This kind of imperfect definition, however, takes its rise from the same cause as the other, namely, the willingness to accept as a definition anything which, whether it expounds the meaning of the name or not, enables us to discriminate the things denoted by the name from all other things, and consequently to employ the term in predication without Deviating from established usage.
"A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)"
John Stuart Mill