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| 1831 - 652 pages
...a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language — no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little... | |
| Congregationalism - 1832 - 534 pages
...a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...homely dialect— the dialect of plain working men — is perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake... | |
| 1832 - 606 pages
...better times ; and we are not afraid to say, j as were shut up [in their houses.*] The meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language — no book which shews so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1840 - 644 pages
...a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has... | |
| American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he* meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well [as the Pilgrim's Progress] how rich that language is in its own proper... | |
| 1879 - 826 pages
...theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...which we would so readily stake the fame of the old uupolluted English language, no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...to •ay. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for erery ecause they are specimens of Walpole's manner. Everybody who reads his works with at plaiť workingmen, was perfectly sufficient Thert is no book in our literature on which we could so... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of th'e fact, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly... | |
| Religion - 1849 - 778 pages
...a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it... | |
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