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...text, ev'n that's as plain 460 For her own rebels to reform again. As long as words a diff 'rent sense will bear, And each may be his own interpreter, Our...will no foundation find; The word 'sa weathercock for ev'ry wind: The Bear, the Fox, the Wolf, by turns prevail; The most in pow'r supplies the present gale....

...to the absence of authority to control private judge/ ment : — As long as words a different sense will bear, And each may be his own interpreter, Our airy faith will no foundation find; The word's a weathercock for every wind, (1 462 ff.) and passes to the epigrammatic conclusion : — O...

...by Text, ev'n that's as plain For her own Rebels to reform again. As long as words a diff rent sense will bear, And each may be his own Interpreter, Our ai'ry faith will no foundation find; The word's a weathercock for ev'ry wind.1 In the latter half of the twentieth century England was a country...

...the presence. Charles Dickens, 1852-3, Bleak House, Ch. 19 28:18 As long as words a different sense will bear, / And each may be his own interpreter, / Our airy faith will no foundation find; / The word's a weathercock for every wind. John Dryden, 1687, The Hind and the Panther', I, 462 28:19 [Fedelma]...

...latitude. John Dryden has described the effects of the slack in words: "As long as words a diff'rent sense will bear /And each may be his own interpreter, / Our airy faith will no foundation find; / The Word's a weathercock for ev'ry wind" (The Hind and the Panther, part i, 11. 462-65). Dryden is writing...

...ambiguity of words and phrase."* Dryden says the same thing in verse: As long as words a diff 'rent sense will bear, And each may be his own interpreter, Our airy faith will no foundation find : The word's a weathercock for every wind.f Indeed, such is the imperfection of the human vocabulary that...

...text, ev'n that's as plain For her own rebels to reform again. As long as words a diff 'rent sense will bear And each may be his own interpreter, Our airy faith will no foundation find; 465 The word's a weathercock for every wind; The Bear, the Fox, the Wolf by turns prevail; The most...