 | Book-lover - 1884 - 530 pages
...birth of time, and unbent by misfortune, and undejected 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,... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1884 - 526 pages
...birth of time, and unbent by misfortune, and undejected 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 - 1885 - 436 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...soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgement. Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then... | |
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 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." Nor is there less aptitude in his characteristic protest against the degenerate tendency of mere specialisation... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1888 - 870 pages
...the 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...figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subjoct, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the learning of... | |
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 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." Nor is there less aptitude in his characteristic protest against the degenerate tendency of mere specialisation... | |
 | Sir William Symington M'Cormick - 1889 - 196 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...soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgement."—Of the Advancement of Learning. Book I. 166 BROWNING. Hohenstiel-Schwangau, and Red Cotton... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1890 - 206 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. . . . Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." Yet,... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1890 - 210 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. . . . Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." Yet,... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pages
...composition of sentence, sweet falling of the clause, varying an illustration by tropes and figures, weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, and depth of judgment. This is monte potiri, to get the hill ; for no perfect discovery can be made... | |
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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... 
