 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...  Philosophical works - Page 119by Francis Bacon - 1864Full view - About this book
 | 1810 - 578 pages
...and clean composition of sentence; sweet falling of the clause; varying an illustration by figures ; weight of matter ; worth of subject ; soundness of argument ; life of invention ; depth of judgment. ' Before you enter on the main subject, endeavour to gain the affection of your... | |
 | William Wirt - 1804 - 120 pages
...composition of the sentence, and the sweet fallings of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with trop'es and figures, than after...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment." Mr. 's temper and habits lead himto the swelling,stately manner of Bolingbroke ; but either from want... | |
 | William Wirt - 1805 - 144 pages
...compositi*' on of the sentence, and the sweet fallings of " the clauses, and the- varying and ittustration of " their works with tropes and figures, than after " the weight of matter, worth of subject, sound" ness of argument, life of invention, or depth of "judgment." Mr. ........'s temper and habits... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1806 - 538 pages
...clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet " falling of the clauses, and the varying and illus" tration of their works with tropes and figures, "...such " infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the ora" tor, and Herinogenes the rhetorician, besides his " own books of periods, and imitation, and the... | |
 | 1806 - 422 pages
...position of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the claus" es, and the varying and illustration of their works with " tropes and figures, than after...argument, life of invention, or " depth of judgment." A discourse delivered in Haverhill March 22 1 805 nt the funeral of jfabcz Kimball AM attorney at law,... | |
 | William Gerard Hamilton - 1808 - 316 pages
...clean composition of sentence ; sweet falling of the clause ; varying an illustration by figures ; weight of matter ; worth of subject ; soundness of argument ; life of invention, depth of judgment. Understand those to whom you are to speak ; consider what they will hear with most... | |
 | William Gerard Hamilton - 1808 - 314 pages
...clean composition of sentence ; sweet falling of the clause ; varying an illustration by figures ; weight of matter ; worth, of subject ; soundness of argument ; life of invention, depth of judgment. Understand those to whom you are to speak ; consider what they will hear with most... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - 516 pages
...clean composition of the sentence, and " the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illus" tration of their works with tropes and figures, than...the Portugal bishop, " to be in price. * * * * Then Car of Cambridge and Ascham, " with their lectures and writings, almost deified Cicero and " Demosthenes,... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1812 - 572 pages
...the sentence, and the sweet " falling of the clauses, and the varying and illus" tration of the whole with tropes and figures, " than after the weight of matter, worth of sub* " ject, or soundness of argument." Such eloquence was always vain and unprofitable, but in the... | |
 | William Wirt - 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... | |
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