 | Blaise Pascal - 1806 - 402 pages
...thing as a general rule on these subjects. Those who force words, to form anthitheses, are like those who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is, not to speak correctly, but to make their figures correct. One language is with relation to another, like a cypher,... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - 1825 - 380 pages
...repetition is not, in this case, a fault ; for there is no absolute general rule. 22. Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense, are like men who...symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures. 23. One language is with respect to another n cypher, in which words stand for words,... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - 1833 - 434 pages
...thing as a general rule on these subjects. Those who force words, to form antitheses, are like those who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak correctly, but to make their figures correct. One language is with relation to another, like a cypher,... | |
 | 1826 - 440 pages
...repetition is nut, .in this case, a fault; for there is no aosolute general rule. 22. Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense, are like men who...symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures. 23. One language is with respect to another a cypher, in which words stand for words,... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - 1846 - 400 pages
...repetition is not, in this case, a fault ; for there is no absolute general rule. XXII. Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense, are like men who...symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures. XXI1I. One language is, with respect to another, a cypher, in which words stand for... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - 1846 - 386 pages
...is no absolute general rule. Those who make antithesOs by forcing the senso, are like men who mako false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to apeak justly, but to make accurate figurea. XXIII. Ono language is, with respect to another, a cypher,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 542 pages
...' sur 1'Eloquence et le Style ' * are well worth the perusal of every writer and speaker. In one of them he profoundly says, ' The very same sense is...just figures.' The time spent on his own compositions shows that even such felicity as his own could not dispense with that toil, which is an essential condition... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - 1851 - 244 pages
...thing as a general rule on these subjects. f Those who force words, ito form antitheses, are like those who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is, not to speak correctly, but to make their figures correct. One language is with relation to another, like a cypher,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 478 pages
..." sur 1'Eloquence et le Style " * are well worth the perusal of every writer and speaker. In one of them he profoundly says : " The very same sense is...just figures." The time spent on his own compositions shows that even such felicity as his own could not dispense * Fang^re, Vol. I. p. 249. with that toil,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 470 pages
...words that convey it. The sense receives its dignity from the words, rather than imparts it to them.' 9 In another, he says: " All the false beauties that...just figures." The time spent on his own compositions shows that even such felicity as his own could not dispense * Faugere, Vol. I. p. 249. with that toil,... | |
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who frame antitheses by forcing the sense, are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make just figures. 
