 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...  Essays on Professional Education - Side 383af Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - 496 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1810 - 578 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1806 - 538 sider
...and copia of speech which "then began to nourish. This," says he, " grew " speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt " more after words than matter,...Osorius the Portugal bishop, ." to be in price ; then did Sturmius spend such " infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the ora" tor, and Herinogenes the... | |
 | 1806 - 422 sider
...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 sider
...composition of the sentence, andthe sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after...Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator, and Hermogenes the rhetorician,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 sider
...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...Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator, and Hermogenes the rhetorician,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 sider
...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...Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator, and Hermogenes the rhetorician,... | |
 | William Gerard Hamilton - 1808 - 316 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
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