 | Lucy Aikin - 1818 - 516 páginas
...she drew first from the fountains of Scripture, and afterwards from St. Cyprian, the ' Common places* of Melancthon and similar works which convey pure...language. In every kind of writing she easily detected any ill-adapted or far-fetched expression. She could not bear those feeble imitators of Erasmus who bind... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 648 páginas
...power of fortune. For her religious instruction, she drew first from the fountains of Scripture, and afterwards from St. Cyprian, the " Common-places"...in elegant language. In every kind of writing, she readily detected any illadapted or far-fetched expression. She could not bear those feeble imitators... | |
 | Brief memoirs - 1823 - 196 páginas
...from the fountains of scripture; and afterwards from St. Cyprian, the common places of Melancthem, and similar works, which convey pure doctrine in elegant...language. In every kind of writing she easily detected any ill-adapted or far-fetched expression. She could not bear those feeble imitators of Erasmus who bind... | |
 | Picture gallery - 1824 - 234 páginas
...tragedies of Sophocles. For her religious instruction, she drew first from the fountains of Scripture, and afterwards from St. Cyprian, the common-places of , Melancthon, and similar works, which contain pure doctrine in simple language.' " Mrs. Spencer remarked, that Ascham's account of Elizabeth's... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - 1837 - 576 páginas
...power of fortune. For her religious instruction, she drew first from the fountains of Scripture; and afterwards from St. Cyprian, the 'Common-places' of...language. In every kind of writing she easily detected any ill-adapted or far-fetched expression. She could not bear those feeble imitators of Erasmus, who bind... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - 1837 - 580 páginas
...convey pure doctrine in elegant language. In every kind of writing she easily detected any ill-adapted or far-fetched expression. She could not bear those feeble imitators of Erasmus, who bind the Latin tongue in the fetters of miserable proverbs; on the other hand, she approved a style chaste in its... | |
 | 1838 - 272 páginas
...she drew first from the fountains of Scripture, and afterwards from St. Cyprian, the Common Places of Melancthon, and similar works which convey pure...language. In every kind of writing she easily detected any ill-adapted or far-fetched expression. She could not bear those feeble imitators of Erasmus who bind... | |
 | 1838 - 274 páginas
...she drew first from the fountains of Scripture, and afterwards from St. Cyprian, the Common Plai;e$ of Melancthon, and similar works which convey pure...language. In every kind of writing she easily detected any ill-adapted or far-fetched expression. She could not bear those feeble imitators of Erasmus who hind... | |
 | 1838 - 544 páginas
...convey pure doctrine in elegant language. In every kind of writing she easily detected any ill-adapted or far-fetched expression. She could not bear those feeble imitators of Erasmus who hind the Latin language in the fetters of miserable proverbe; on the other hand, she approved a style... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1851 - 820 páginas
...power of fortune. For her religious instruction, she drew first from the fountains of Scripture, and afterwards from St. Cyprian, the 'Common-places' of...works, which convey pure doctrine in elegant language." The letters from which these passages have been extracted were written by Ascham, in Latin, in the... | |
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I judged best adapted to supply her tongue with the purest diction; her mind with the most excellent precepts; and her exalted station with a defence against the utmost power of fortune. For her religious instruction, she drew first from the fountains... 
