 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...to 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...judgment. Then grew the flowing and watery vein of 130sorius the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1869 - 446 pages
...began to 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...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... | |
 | William Thompson Read - Delaware - 1870 - 596 pages
...and hence the prevailing error of hunting more after words than matter, and more after the choicencss of the phrase and the round and clean composition...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.' Mr. Randolph's temper and habits lead him to the stately and swelling manner of Bolingbroke ; but,... | |
 | William Thompson Read - Delaware - 1870 - 590 pages
...languages and a taste for the Ciceronian manner, and hence the prevailing error of hunting more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of...sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the^varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter,... | |
 | Bible - 1871 - 832 pages
...Bacon criticising the literature introduced by the Reformation, says : " Men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of...than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, expends his main strength. In mentally answering it to himself he will be impelled to use certain words.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1872 - 602 pages
...composition, sweet cadence of periods, the use of tropes and figures, than after weight of matter, dignity of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew into esteem the flowing and watery vein of Orosius,6 the Portugal bishop ; then did Sturmius bestow... | |
 | Richard Wright Procter - Greater Manchester - 1874 - 484 pages
...birth of time, and, unbent by misfortune, and undejected by disgrace, illuminating philosophy "with all the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, and depth of judgment." We can see Selden amidst bulls, breviats, antiphoners, and monkish manuscripts,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - English drama - 1875 - 560 pages
...composition of sentence, sweet falling of the clause, varying an illustration by tropes and figures, weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, and depth of judgment. This is monte potiri, to get the hill ; for no perfect discovery can be made... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 pages
...to 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...matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life __pf invention, or depth of judgement. Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1876 - 670 pages
...began to flourish. This," says he, " grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of...tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, wortli of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing... | |
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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... 
