 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...matter ; and more after the choiceness of the p.insp, snij tj,e round amj dean composition of the , and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pages
...flourish. This grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean...composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the • Compare Milton, Par. Lost, v. 486, seq. ; and see Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, p. 157, On the... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1853 - 560 pages
...speedily to an 'excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the ehoiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition...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 - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the •Wtence, ecs vulgi negare profanum ; sed vulgi opiniones diis...names for their particular gods, though they have no Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator, and Hermogenes the rhetorician,... | |
 | Charles Buxton - Antislavery movements - 1855 - 862 pages
...Lord Bacon, " that hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying...than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, or soundness of argument." He usually bestowed much care in preparation ; not in embellishing the style,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 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 - 1857 - 854 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 (Viscount St. Albans) - Philosophy - 1857 - 856 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 Stunnius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator and Hermogenes the rhetorician,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 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 Hennogenes the rhetorician,... | |
 | William Wirt - Southern States - 1832 - 280 pages
...choiceness of the phrase and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet fallings of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment." Mr 's temper and habits lead him to the swelling, stately manner of Bolinghroke but either from 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... 
