... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable... Rudimentary Psychology for Schools and Colleges - Página 180por George McKendree Steele - 1889 - 264 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| James Boswell - 1807 - 562 páginas
...sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth...numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way, (such as reason teacheth and proveth... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 532 páginas
...obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one «an hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable, and inexplicable;...numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way, (such as reason teacheth and proveth... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 páginas
...purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. liways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable...numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (such as re.ir.on teacheth and provcth... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - 546 páginas
...: often it consists in one knows not what, and springetJi up one can hardly tell how. Its ways ar« unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speakj iug out of the simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and proveth... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 páginas
...sometimes itriseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange: sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter, to the purpose : often it consisteth...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and knoweth... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 506 páginas
...sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth...numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way, (such as reason teacheth and proveth... | |
| Voltaire - 1824 - 524 páginas
...eternal land-mark of this mighty change. His manes called for no less offering Than Roman liberty. springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language."— T. This thought is very brilliant ; there is much wit in it, as also an air of imposing grandeur. I... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 páginas
...being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose : often it consisteth...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way, such as reason teacheth and proveth... | |
| 1825 - 712 páginas
...notion thereof, than to make a pourtraict of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. — Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being...numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language." Barrow's Sermons against Evil Speaking. Such was the opinion of one who possessed no small portion... | |
| James Boaden - 1825 - 646 páginas
...unaccountable and inexplicable, being "answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and wind " ings of language. — It raiseth admiration as signifying...nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of inven" tion, a vivacity of spirit, and reach of wit more than vul" gar : it procureth delight by gratifying... | |
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