 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 pages
...delivered so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking ; positive...plainness as they can ; and preferring the language of artizans, countrymen, and merchants, before that of wits or scholars. (From the History of the Royal... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 pages
...delivered so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking ; positive...plainness as they can ; and preferring the language of artizans, countrymen, and merchants, before that of wits or scholars. (From the History of the Royal... | |
 | Park Benjamin - 1895 - 650 pages
...time of Adam, introductory to a physical fact observed yesterday. It "exacted from all its members a close, naked, natural way of speaking, positive...countrymen and merchants before that of wits or scholars." Thence sprang that requirement which enters into all highly-developed modern systems of Patent Law,... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1898 - 952 pages
...the amplifications and digressions of style." They have, he says, exacted from all their members " a close, naked, natural way of speaking — positive...countrymen, and merchants before that of wits or scholars." And he practises what he preaches, though without forgetting scholarship. But we shall see. as we survey... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1898 - 858 pages
...the amplifications and digressions of style." They have, he says, exacted from all their members " a close, naked, natural way of speaking — positive...countrymen, and merchants before that of wits or scholars." And he practises what he preaches, though without forgetting scholarship. But we shall see, as we survey... | |
 | 1899 - 452 pages
...scientific ideal is prominent. Sprat explains how the Eoyal Society " have exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking ; positive...near the mathematical plainness as they can " ; and this in correction of all kinds of vicious aberration and voluble obscurity. The right manner is serried,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 504 pages
...According to the official definition of the infant Royal Society, they " exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking, positive...near the mathematical plainness as they can," and passed "a resolution to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style." No literary... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 pages
...According to the official definition of the infant Royal Society, they " exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking, positive...near the mathematical plainness as they can," and passed "a resolution to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style." No literary... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1907 - 440 pages
...According to the official definition of the infant Royal Society, they " exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking, positive...near the mathematical plainness as they can," and passed " a resolution to reject all the amplifications,digressions, and swellings of style." No literary... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 544 pages
...deliver'd so many things almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking, positive expressions, clear senses, a native eas'neas, bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness as they can, and preferring the language... | |
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Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men deliver'd so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members,... 
