 | James Mulvihill - 2004 - 300 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" [PL 26]), while others concern matters of argumentative proof ("Three rules of probability:—what... | |
 | Andreas Höfele, Werner von Koppenfels - 2005 - 312 pages
...Ciceronianism as the first vanity in learning, '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 judgment.18 Montaigne, who deplores bombast,19 praises Seneca for his 'plaine, unaffected' manner;... | |
 | Robert Goldbort - 2006 - 344 pages
...out a new and bold scientific enterprise, Bacon also chastised those who "hunt more after words . . . than after the weight of matter, worth of subject,...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment." With the rise of modern science, the dominance of the old attitude of taking pleasure in linguistic... | |
 | Terttu Nevalainen - 2006 - 194 pages
...more after wordes, than matter, and more after the choisenesse of the Phrase, and the round and cleane composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling...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,... | |
 | Anja Müller-Wood - 2007 - 225 pages
...well-known passage from The Advancement of Learning, Bacon utters his dissatisfaction with the way "choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean...illustration of their works with tropes and figures" seemed to have substituted "weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention,... | |
 | Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander, Katrin Ettenhuber - 2007 - 238 pages
...prejudged, and denounced as a negative turn in the history of Renaissance prose style — a pursuit 'more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence . . . than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention,... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 pages
...sought to come to the spirit or heart of the matter. Impatient of nuance, they spoke satirically of "the choiceness of the phrase and the round and clean composition of the sentence" (Bacon in The Advancement of Learning). When you hear them do this, you know that the drama's great... | |
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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... 
