 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
 | Bible - 1871 - 832 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 the weight of matter, worth of subject, expends his main strength. In mentally answering it to himself he will be impelled to use certain words.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1872 - 602 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 watery vein of Orosius,6 the Portugal bishop ; then did Sturmius bestow... | |
 | Richard Wright Procter - Greater Manchester - 1874 - 484 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, breviats, antiphoners, and monkish manuscripts,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - English drama - 1875 - 560 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 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...matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life __pf invention, or depth of judgement. Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than aft*sthe weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. This Bacon calls over-delicate learning. After illustrating also the contentious aud fantastical, Bacon... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1876 - 670 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 the weight of matter, wortli of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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 pains upon Cicero the orator, and Hermogenes the rhetorican,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Christian biography - 1883 - 410 pages
...choiceness of the phrase, the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying illustration of their words, with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, or soundness of argument." He usually prepared his speeches with great care, not for the sake of artifices... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 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 Sturmiusi spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator, and Hermogenes 2 the rhetorician,... | |
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