 | William Wirt - 1804 - 120 pages
...the sentence, and the sweet fallings of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with trop'es and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment." Mr. 's temper and habits lead himto... | |
 | William Wirt - 1805 - 144 pages
...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... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1806 - 538 pages
...sentence, and the sweet " falling of the clauses, and the varying and illus" tration of their works with tropes and figures, " than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, " soundness of argument, life of invention, or " depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing " and watery... | |
 | 1806 - 422 pages
...the sentence, and the sweet falling of the claus" es, and the varying and illustration of their works with " tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth " of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or " depth of judgment." A discourse delivered in Haverhill... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 970 pages
...the sentence, andthe sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing and watery vein... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...the 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, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing and watery vein... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...the 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, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing and watery vein... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - 516 pages
...sentence, and " the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illus" tration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the " weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, " life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the " flowing and watery... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1812 - 572 pages
...the sentence, and the sweet " falling of the clauses, and the varying and illus" tration of the whole with tropes and figures, " than after the weight of matter, worth of sub* " ject, or soundness of argument." Such eloquence was always vain and unprofitable, but in the... | |
 | William Wirt - 1813 - 204 pages
...sentence, and the sweet fall"ings of the clauses, and the varying and illui"tration of their works with tropes and figures, " than after the weight of matter, worth of sub"jeet, soundness of argument, life of invention, "or depth of judgment." Mr. "s temper and habits... | |
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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... 
