 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 pages
...speech. This enmity speedily ended in producing the opposite extreme ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of...and the round and clean composition of the sentence, than after the weight of matter, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...to flourish. This grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, aud the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 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... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - 1884 - 394 pages
...the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their words with tropes and figures, than after the weight of...subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1884 - 526 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,... | |
 | Book-lover - 1884 - 530 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,... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1884 - 260 pages
...and the round and clean composition of the sentence and the sweet falling of the clauses," than after worth of subject, soundness of argument, " life of invention or depth of judgment." "I have represented this," he says, " in an example of late times, but it hath been and will be secundum... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 pages
...to flourish. This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round...soundness of argument;. life of invention, or depth of judgement. Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 540 pages
...Master of words, it must be at least admitted that Bacon's words are not as other men's. \Tt is not " the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean...of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of his works •with tropes and figures," that constitute his claim to a literary immortality : it is... | |
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 pages
...and copie of speech. . . . This grew speedily to an excess, for men began to hunt more after w<$rds than matter ; and more after the choiceness of the...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment." Nor is there less aptitude in his characteristic protest against the degenerate tendency of mere specialisation... | |
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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... 
