 | Richard Baxter, William Orme - Christian life - 1830 - 848 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 figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument,... | |
 | 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 - Dissenters, Religious - 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... | |
 | William Orme - Clergy - 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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1833 - 516 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 figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument,... | |
 | Baptists - 1833 - 490 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 figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 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,... | |
 | William Gray - English literature - 1835 - 124 pages
...to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of phrase, and the round and clean composition of the...the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argusubstance or profit." See vol. ii. p. 38. et seq. of the beautiful edition of Bacon's Works now... | |
 | Western Literary Institute and College of Professional Teachers - Education - 1837 - 286 pages
...than matter; and more after the choiceness of phrase, the round and clean composition of the sentence; the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment." When such is the nature of compositions, what must result? The very food taken in by the mind is unhealthy.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 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,... | |
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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... 
