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" Execrabilis ista turba, quae non novit legem^] for the winning and persuading of them, there grew of necessity in chief price and request eloquence and variety of discourse, as the fittest and forciblest access into the capacity of the vulgar sort. "
The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 27
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819
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Selected Philosophical Works

Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - Philosophy - 1999 - 340 pages
...the people (of whom the Pharisees were wont to say "the wretched mob that has not known the law"), for the winning and persuading of them, there grew of necessity in chief value and request eloquence and variety of discourse, as the fittest and most forceful access into...
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Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric

Wayne A. Rebhorn - European literature - 2000 - 340 pages
...the people (of whom the Pharisees were wont to say, "Execrabilis ista turba, quae non novit legem")34 for the winning and persuading of them, there grew of necessity in chief price35 and request eloquence and variety of discourse, as the fittest and forciblest access into the...
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The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Documents

Kate Aughterson - England - 2002 - 628 pages
...call it lawfuhtess of the phrase or word. And again, hecause the lahour then was with the people . . . for the winning and persuading of them there grew...request eloquence and variety of discourse, as the liuest and forcihlest access into the capacity of the vulgar sort: so that these four causes concurring,...
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The Major Works

Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...the people (of whom the Pharisees0 were wont to say, 'Execrabilis ista turba, quae non novit legem),0 for the winning and persuading of them, there grew of necessity in chief price0 and request eloquence and variety of discourse, as the fittest and forciblest access into the...
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Scholarly Environments: Centres of Learning and Institutional Contexts, 1560 ...

Alasdair A. MacDonald, A. H. Huussen - Education - 2004 - 246 pages
...of writing ...'.19 The humanist emphasis on eloquentia and persuasio is explained by four aspects: 'the admiration of ancient authors, the hate of the...study of languages, and the efficacy of preaching ... This grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words than matter ...'.20 In...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...people, (of whom the Pharisees were wont to say, " Execrabilis ista turba, quĞe non novit legem,") where there is an equality the consultations are more...more cheerful. A great and potent nobility addeth affectionate study of eloquence and " copia" of speech, which then began to flourish. This grew speedily...
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The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - Logic - 1920 - 96 pages
...with the people (of whom the Pharisees were wont to say, Execrabilis ista turba, qua non novit legem), for the winning and persuading of them, there grew...languages, and the efficacy of preaching, did bring in an affectionate study of eloquence and copie of speech, which then began to flourish. This grew speedily...
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Lectures on the History of the Nineteenth Century, Delivered at the ...

Frederick Alexander Kirkpatrick - Eastern question - 1904 - 726 pages
...thought was beginning to occupy itself. Bacon thus animadverts upon "the first disease of learning." "So that these four causes concurring, the admiration...languages, and the efficacy of preaching, did bring in an affectionate study of eloquence, and copia of speech, which then began to flourish. This grew speedily...
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Pioneers of Modern Education 1600-1700

John William Adamson - Education - 1905 - 320 pages
...thought was beginning to occupy itself. Bacon thus animadverts upon "the first disease of learning." "So that these four causes concurring, the admiration...languages, and the efficacy of preaching, did bring in an affectionate study of eloquence, and copia of speech, which then began to flourish. This grew speedily...
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A History of Classical Scholarship, Volume 2

John Edwin Sandys - Classical philology - 1908 - 544 pages
...divinity and in humanity, which had long slept in libraries, began generally to be read and revolved' — 'The admiration of ancient authors, the hate of the schoolmen, the exact study of languages ' were among the causes that contributed to the study of eloquence. ' This grew speedily to an excess...
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