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... The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth - Página 108por William Roscoe - 1806Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1810 - 578 páginas
...and clean composition of sentence; sweet falling of the clause; varying an illustration by figures ; weight of matter ; worth of subject ; soundness of argument ; life of invention ; depth of judgment. ' Before you enter on the main subject, endeavour to gain the affection of your... | |
| William Wirt - 1804 - 120 páginas
...composition of the sentence, and the sweet fallings of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with trop'es and figures, than after...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment." Mr. 's temper and habits lead himto the swelling,stately manner of Bolingbroke ; but either from want... | |
| William Wirt - 1805 - 144 páginas
...compositi*' on of the sentence, and the sweet fallings of " the clauses, and the- varying and ittustration of " their works with tropes and figures, than after " the weight of matter, worth of subject, sound" ness of argument, life of invention, or depth of "judgment." Mr. ........'s temper and habits... | |
| 1806 - 422 páginas
...position of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the claus" es, and the varying and illustration of their works with " tropes and figures, than after...argument, life of invention, or " depth of judgment." A discourse delivered in Haverhill March 22 1 805 nt the funeral of jfabcz Kimball AM attorney at law,... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 970 páginas
...composition of the sentence, andthe sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after...spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator, and Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of periods, and imitation, and the like.... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 528 páginas
...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...spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator, and Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of periods, and imitation, and the like.... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 528 páginas
...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...spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator, and Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of periods, and imitation, and the like.... | |
| William Gerard Hamilton - 1808 - 316 páginas
...clean composition of sentence ; sweet falling of the clause ; varying an illustration by figures ; weight of matter ; worth of subject ; soundness of argument ; life of invention, depth of judgment. Understand those to whom you are to speak ; consider what they will hear with most... | |
| William Gerard Hamilton - 1808 - 314 páginas
...clean composition of sentence ; sweet falling of the clause ; varying an illustration by figures ; weight of matter ; worth, of subject ; soundness of argument ; life of invention, depth of judgment. Understand those to whom you are to speak ; consider what they will hear with most... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - 516 páginas
...England, " an affected " study of eloquence and copia of speech flourished, and grew " speedily to excess; men began to hunt more after words " than matter;...the Portugal bishop, " to be in price. * * * * Then Car of Cambridge and Ascham, " with their lectures and writings, almost deified Cicero and " Demosthenes,... | |
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