 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 páginas
...into an excess : for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; and more alter the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmiusi... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - 1884 - 394 páginas
...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...clauses, and the varying and illustration of their words with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument,... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1884 - 526 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Book-lover - 1884 - 530 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 páginas
...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...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 páginas
...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 composition...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 páginas
...speedily to an excess, for men began to hunt more after w<$rds than matter ; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment." Nor is there less aptitude in his characteristic protest against the degenerate tendency of mere specialisation... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1888 - 870 páginas
...study of eloquence : men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase and the round and clean composition...figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subjoct, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the learning of... | |
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 páginas
...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...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... 
