 This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration...  Essays on Professional Education - Page 383by Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - 496 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wirt - Virginia - 1813 - 204 pages
..."composition of the sentence, and the sweet fall"ings of the clauses, and the varying and illui"tration of their works with tropes and figures, " than after the weight of matter, worth of sub"jeet, soundness of argument, life of invention, "or depth of judgment." Mr. "s temper and habits... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 324 pages
...composition, sweet cadence of periods, the use of tropes and figures ; than after weight of matter, dignity of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew into esteem, the flowing and watry vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop ; then did Sturmius bestow... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 464 pages
...composition of sentence, sweet falling of the clause, varying an illustration by tropes and figures, weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, and depth of judgment. This is monte potiri, to get the hill ; for no perfect discovery can be made... | |
 | William Wirt - Virginia - 1829 - 250 pages
...composition of the sentence, and the "sweet fallings of the clauses, and the vary" ing and illustration of their works with "tropes and figures, than after...argu"ment, life of invention, or depth of judg"ment." Mr .......... 's temper and habits lead him to the swelling, stately manner of Bolingbroke; but either... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after...invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing and watry vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Stursius spend such infinite and... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - Science - 1819 - 598 pages
...composition of the sentence, and " the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and il" lustration of their works with tropes and figures, than, " after...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment." (Of the advancement of learning, Book 1.) This was, in a great measure, the employment of the learned,... | |
 | Natural history - 1819 - 556 pages
...composition of the sentence, and " the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and il" lustration of their works with tropes and figures, than " after...argument,. life of invention, or depth of judgment." (Of the advancement of learning, Book 1.) Til's was, in a great measure, the employment of the learned,... | |
 | England - 1821 - 818 pages
...birth of time, and unbent by misfortune, and undejected by disgrace, illuminating philosophy " with all the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, and depth of judgment." We can see Selden amidst bulls, bre\ kits, antiphoners, and monkish manuscripts,... | |
 | Scotland - 1821 - 618 pages
...birth of time, and unbent by misfortune, and undetected by disgrace, illuminating philosophy " with all the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, and depth of judgment." We can see Selden amidst bulls, breviats, antiphoners, and monkish manuscripts,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after...Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pain- upon Cicero the orator, and Hermogenes the rhetorician,... | |
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