 | 1821 - 618 pages
...birth of time, and unbent by misfortune, and undetected 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...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 Sturinius... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1827 - 576 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 852 pages
...composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration with tropes and figures, than after the weight •...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment." Baxter was superior to all this. Truth in all its majesty and infinite importance alone occupied the... | |
 | William Orme - 1830 - 570 pages
...composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration with tropes and figures, than after the weight of...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment." Baxter was superior to all this. Truth in all its majesty and infinite importance alone occupied the... | |
 | 1830 - 592 pages
...sentence, and the sweet falling, of the clauses, and the varying and illustration with tropes and figurcst than after the weight of matter, worth of subject,...soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgement." Baxter was superior to all this. Truth, in all its majesty and infinite importance, alone... | |
 | William Orme - 1831 - 378 pages
...the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration with tropes aud figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment." Baxter was superior to all this. Truth in all its majesty and infinite importance alone occupied the... | |
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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... 
