 | William Wirt - Virginia - 1829 - 250 pages
...and '• clean composition of the sentence, and the "sweet fallings of the clauses, and the vary" ing and illustration of their works with "tropes and figures,...argu"ment, life of invention, or depth of judg"ment." Mr .......... 's temper and habits lead him to the swelling, stately manner of Bolingbroke; but either... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...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...invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing and watry vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Stursius spend such infinite and... | |
 | Natural history - 1819 - 556 pages
..." the hunting after " words more than matter," as Lord Bacou expresses it, the " seeking more after the choiceness of the phrase, and " the round and...sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and il" lustration of their works with tropes and figures, than " after the weight of matter, worth of... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - Science - 1819 - 598 pages
..." the hunting after " words more than matter," as Lord Bacon expresses it, the " seeking more after the choiceness of the phrase, and " the round and...sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and il" lustration of their works with tropes and figures, than, " after the weight of matter, worth of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...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...Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pain- upon Cicero the orator, and Hermogenes the rhetorician,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to bunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more a CUT words than matter ; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean...Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturinius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator, and Hermogenes the rhetorician,... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1827 - 576 pages
...he, " 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...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,... | |
 | 1830 - 592 pages
...Bacon so beautifully describes, as consisting " more in hunting after words than matter ; more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean...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,... | |
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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... 
