| Joseph Ames - 1810 - 716 páginas
...utter his communication and matters in such manners and terms that few men shall understand them. And some honest and great clerks have been with me, and...to write the most curious terms that I could find. And thus between plain, rude, and curious, I stand abashed : but in my judgment, the common terms that... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 336 páginas
...while some advised him to use old and homely terms, others, " honest and great clerks," he adds, " have been with me, and desired me to write the most curious terms that 1 could find — and thus betwixt plain, rude, and curious, I stand abashed." Among the books which... | |
| Lives - 1833 - 588 páginas
...for, \vhile some advised him to use old and homely terms : " Some honest and great clerks," he adds, " have been with me, and desired me to write the most curious terms that I could finde— and thus, betwixt plain, rude, and curious, I stand abashed." There can be no doubt, however,... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 páginas
...•while some advised him to use old and homely terms : " Some honest and great clerks," he adds, " have been with me, and desired me to write the most curious terms that I could finde — and thus, betwixt plain, rude, and curious, I stand abashed." There can be no dofltot, however,... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 páginas
...advised him to use old and homely terms : " Some honest and great clerks," he adds, "have been wilh me, and desired me to write the most curious terms that I could finde — and thus, betwixt plain, rude, and curious, I stand abashed." There can be no doubt, however,... | |
| Exemplary and instructive biography - 1836 - 348 páginas
...while some advised him to use old and homely terms, others, " honest and great clerks," he adds, " have been with me, and desired me to write the most curious terms that I could find ; and thus, betwixt plain, rude, and curious, •! stand abashed." Among the books which Caxton published,... | |
| Charles Knight - 1844 - 252 páginas
...and matters in such manners and terms that few men shall understand them. And some honest and good clerks have been with me, and desired me to write the most curious terms that I could find. And thus between plain, rude, and curious, I stand abashed ; but in my judgment, the common terms that... | |
| 1850 - 396 páginas
...used ne understood." And again: "Some gentlemen blamed me, saying that in my translations, I have over curious terms, which could not be understood of common people, and desired me to use olde homely terms in my translations. As I fain would satisfy every man, so to do, I took an old book... | |
| Charles Knight - 1854 - 350 páginas
...and matters in such manners and terms that few men shall understand them. And some honest and good clerks have been with me, and desired me to write the most curious terms that I could find. And thus between plain, rude, and curious, I stand abashed ; but in my judgment, the common terms that... | |
| John Sproule - 1854 - 562 páginas
...while some advised him to use old and homely tenus, others, • honest ami great clerks," he adds, "have been with me and desired me to write the most curious terms that i iiiuld find — ¡md thus betwixt plain, rude, and curious, I stand abashed." In 1480 he published... | |
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