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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... "
Essays on Professional Education - Page 383
by Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - 496 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 15

1810 - 578 pages
...and clean composition of sentence; sweet falling of the clause; varying an illustration by figures ; weight of matter ; worth of subject ; soundness of argument ; life of invention ; depth of judgment. ' Before you enter on the main subject, endeavour to gain the affection of your...
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The British Spy, Or, Letters to a Member of the British Parliament: Written ...

William Wirt - United States - 1804 - 120 pages
...composition of the sentence, and the sweet fallings of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with trop'es and figures, than after...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment." Mr. 's temper and habits lead himto the swelling,stately manner of Bolingbroke ; but either from want...
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The Letters of the British Spy

William Wirt - Virginia - 1805 - 144 pages
...compositi*' on of the sentence, and the sweet fallings of " the clauses, and the- varying and ittustration of " their works with tropes and figures, than after " the weight of matter, worth of subject, sound" ness of argument, life of invention, or depth of "judgment." Mr. ........'s temper and habits...
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The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth, Volume 4

William Roscoe - Papal States - 1806 - 538 pages
...and copia of speech which "then began to nourish. This," says he, " grew " speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt " more after words than matter,...Osorius the Portugal bishop, ." to be in price ; then did Sturmius spend such " infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the ora" tor, and Herinogenes the...
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The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on ..., Volume 2

Literature - 1806 - 422 pages
...position of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the claus" es, and the varying and illustration of their works with " tropes and figures, than after...argument, life of invention, or " depth of judgment." A discourse delivered in Haverhill March 22 1 805 nt the funeral of jfabcz Kimball AM attorney at law,...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...composition of the sentence, andthe sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after...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,...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after...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,...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after...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,...
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Parliamentary logick: to which are subjoined two speeches, delivered in the ...

William Gerard Hamilton - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1808 - 316 pages
...clean composition of sentence ; sweet falling of the clause ; varying an illustration by figures ; weight of matter ; worth of subject ; soundness of argument ; life of invention, depth of judgment. Understand those to whom you are to speak ; consider what they will hear with most...
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Parliamentary Logick: To which are Subjoined Two Speeches, Delivered in the ...

William Gerard Hamilton - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1808 - 314 pages
...clean composition of sentence ; sweet falling of the clause ; varying an illustration by figures ; weight of matter ; worth, of subject ; soundness of argument ; life of invention, depth of judgment. Understand those to whom you are to speak ; consider what they will hear with most...
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