 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pages
...with eloquence at the expense of content that he is objecting to. ' For men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment' [III, 283]. Bacon evidently believed that if the author concentrates on giving a clear account of his... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus - 1974 - 360 pages
...speech, which then began to flourish. This grew speedily to an excess, for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.' He quotes a gibe at the Ciceronians from one of Erasmus' colloquies 87 and concludes, ‘In sum, the... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 pages
...began to flourish. This grew steadily 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 Osorious, the Portugal bishop, to be in price.... | |
 | Francis Burton Harrison - 1910 - 424 pages
...English prose the mellow richness of sentiment, the sweet tone of not unmanly philosophy, and shown that the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, are not inconsistent with vigor and weighty wisdom. Lastly, the splendor of Scott, the brightest name... | |
 | Richard Halpern - 1991 - 340 pages
...speech, which then began to flourish. This grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of...soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgement. ... Then did Car of Cambridge, and Ascham, with their lectures and writings, almost deify... | |
 | Manfred Görlach - 1991 - 492 pages
...matter, and more after the choisenesse of the Phrase, and the round and cleane composition of the 45 sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their workes with tropes and figures: then after the weight of matter, worth of subiect, soundnesse of argument,... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 pages
...not be, he cautions, a too "affectionate study of eloquence," so that men begin "to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of...tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, soundness of argument, life of invention or depth of judgment." What a happy circumstance, that Bacon... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - 1996 - 578 pages
...writing. . . . 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 3. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter... | |
 | Judith H. Anderson - 1996 - 372 pages
...The Advancement of Learning, Bacon distinguishes between copious words and "weight," more exactly, "the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment." His association of weight with matter, as distinct from worthy subject, accentuates his association... | |
 | Markku Peltonen - 1996 - 406 pages
...concern for eloquence and copiousness, which 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 compositon of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration... | |
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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... 
