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" Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working-men,... "
The baptist Magazine - Page 111
1832
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Lives of the Necromancers: Or, An Account of the Most Eminent Persons in ...

William Godwin - 1876 - 376 pages
...terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement...sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could so readily stake the fame of -the old unpolluted English language; no book which shows so well...
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Whiteladies

Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1876 - 630 pages
...terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement...sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well...
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The two destinies, Volume 2

William Wilkie Collins - 1876 - 358 pages
...terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement...sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could, so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well...
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Joseph and his brethren, a scriptural drama, by H.L. Howard. By C. Wells

Charles Jeremiah Wells - 1876 - 336 pages
...terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement...sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well...
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Oakshott castle, by Granby Dixon, ed. [or rather written] by H. Kingsley

Henry Kingsley - 1876 - 388 pages
...terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement...sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement...and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of the workingmen, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily...
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The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Joseph Strutt - 1876 - 728 pages
...terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement...for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the d1vine, this homely dialect — the dialect of pla1n working men — was perfectly sufficient- There...
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Christian Words

Wesleyan Reform Union of Churches - 1876 - 430 pages
...are whole pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Lord Macaulay says, "There is no book in our literature on which we would...the fame of the old unpolluted English language." Cowper said, fifty years ago, that he dare not name John Bunyan in his verso, for fear of moving a...
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Joseph and His Brethren: A Dramatic Poem

Charles Wells - 1876 - 318 pages
...terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. Yet no writer ha* said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement...for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the px>et, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect — the dialect of plain working men — was...
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Selections from the Writings of Lord Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 498 pages
...more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for suhtlc disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator,...divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working-men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no hook in our literature on which we would so readily...
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