 | Ellen Crofts - England - 1884 - 394 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...clauses, and the varying and illustration of their words with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 438 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...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... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - England - 1885 - 540 pages
...Master of words, it must be at least admitted that Bacon's words are not as other men's. \Tt is not " the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean...of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of his works •with tropes and figures," that constitute his claim to a literary immortality : it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 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,... | |
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 pages
...This grew speedily to an excess, for men began to hunt more after w<$rds than matter ; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean...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 - Civilization, Medieval - 1888 - 870 pages
...an affectionate study of eloquence : men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase and the round and clean...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
...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...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 - English literature - 1889 - 196 pages
.... 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...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 - Poetry - 1890 - 210 pages
..." 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...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. . . . Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." Yet,... | |
 | Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus - European fiction - 1891 - 378 pages
...sight. CHAPTER VII. A FRENCH CHATEAU. 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... 
