 | Richard Wright Procter - 1874 - 484 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 pagina’s
...composition of sentence, sweet falling of the clause, varying an illustration by tropes and figures, weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, and depth of judgment. This is monte potiri, to get the hill ; for no perfect discovery can be made... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 pagina’s
...phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with...matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life __pf invention, or depth of judgement. Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1876 - 670 pagina’s
...phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with...tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, wortli of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pagina’s
...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 figures, than aft*sthe weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pagina’s
...phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with...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 Sturmius... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1883 - 410 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pagina’s
...phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1884 - 260 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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... 
