 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Enslaved persons - 1848 - 628 pages
...after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with...than after the weight of matter, -worth of subject, or soundness of argument." He usually bestowed much care in preparation ; not in embellishing the style,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Abolitionists - 1848 - 646 pages
...after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with...tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, r 1819. CHARACTER OF HIS SPEECHES. 87 worth of subject, or soundness of argument." He usually bestowed... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, their causes." How much is it to be lamented that...the tranquil pursuit of knowledge, and the calm d Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...of the p.insp, snij tj,e round amj dean composition of the , and the sweet falling of the clauses, y and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome,...quickness, and life of spirit, but no soundness of m Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1851 - 376 pages
...compofition of the fentence, and the fweet falling of the claufes, and the varying and illuftration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of fubjeft, foundnefs of argument, life of invention, or depth of Judgment. Then grew the flowing and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pages
...where the expression is explained. ' Job. vii. 49. Grace of Style yet not without Value. 25 clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with...argument, life of invention or depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Orosius8 the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...phrase, and the round and clean composition of the •Wtence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius... | |
 | Charles Buxton - Antislavery movements - 1855 - 862 pages
...after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with...than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, or soundness of argument." He usually bestowed much care in preparation ; not in embellishing the style,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius... | |
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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... 
