 | John William Adamson - Education - 1921 - 320 pages
...This grew speedily into 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,... | |
 | Marshall McLuhan - Social Science - 1962 - 306 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...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,... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - Science - 1974 - 300 pages
...content that he is objecting to. ' 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' [III, 283]. Bacon evidently believed that if the author concentrates on giving a clear account of his... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus - Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) - 1974 - 360 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.' He quotes a gibe at the Ciceronians from one of Erasmus' colloquies 87 and concludes, ‘In sum, the... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 pages
...flourish. This grew steadily 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 Osorious, the Portugal bishop, to be in price.... | |
 | Richard Halpern - Capitalism and literature - 1991 - 340 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...soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgement. ... Then did Car of Cambridge, and Ascham, with their lectures and writings, almost deify... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 294 pages
..."affectionate study of eloquence," so that men begin "to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean...tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, soundness of argument, life of invention or depth of judgment." What a happy circumstance, that Bacon... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - Knowledge, Sociology of - 1996 - 578 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 3. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter... | |
 | Markku Peltonen - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 406 pages
...words than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean compositon of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses,...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. (Ill, 283) Those five concluding clauses not only sum up Bacon's view of a writer's proper priorities,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - Philosophy - 1999 - 340 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...watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be valued. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator and Hermogenes... | |
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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... 
