 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 27by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...stood. It is true that like Erasmus of Rotterdam, he assailed recent excesses in rhetorical practice: '...four causes concurring, the admiration of ancient...languages, and the efficacy of preaching, did bring in an affectionate study of eloquence and copy of speech... This grew speedily to an excess... '30 'But yet... | |
 | Robert E. Stillman - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 372 pages
...kind of writing" (3.283). The cultural consequences of that turn of interest were disastrous: [Tjhere grew of necessity in chief price and request eloquence...languages, and the efficacy of preaching, did bring in an affectionate study of eloquence and copie of speech. (3.283) The affectionate study of eloquence is... | |
 | Jill Kraye - History - 1996 - 350 pages
...variety of discourse' which, he tells us, had been cultivated as the fittest and forciblest access in to the capacity of the vulgar sort. So that these four...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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