...say, Execrabilis ista turba, qua non novit legem,) [the wretched crowd that has not known the law,] 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...

...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...

...strongly conscious of the Renaissance verbalism. Surveying the trend of the 16th century he declared : "So that these four causes concurring, the admiration...authors, the hate of the schoolmen, the exact study of language, and the efficacy of preaching, did bring in an affectionate study of eloquence and copy of...

...public. The growing public could only be won by flowery rhetoric and, Bacon goes on to say (p. 24): 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...

...the ancient languages, ‘and thereof grew again a delight in their manner of style and phrase ... there grew of necessity in chief price and request...forciblest access into the capacity of the vulgar sort ... the admiration of ancient authors, the hate of the schoolmen, the exact study of languages, and...

...the people (of whom the Pharisees were wont to say, "Execrabilis ista turba, qitae 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 steadily...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...wurde das Schreiben in "vernacular" bevorzugt. For the winning and persuading of them [the people, JK], there grew of necessity in chief price and request...forciblest access into the capacity of the vulgar sort.55 Mit dieser Zielrichtung war die neuerliche und schon erwähnte Hochschätzung von Cicero und...