 They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen,...  Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ... - Page 118edited by - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Sprat - English poetry - 1667 - 470 pages
...expreflions; clear fenfo , a native eafinefs : bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainnefs, as they can : and preferring the language of Artizans,...Scholars. And here, there is one thing, not to be pafs'd by $ which will render this eftablifh'd cuftom of the Sofietj, well nigh everlafting : and that... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...have exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking ; positive expressions ; clear senses ; a native easiness : bringing all things...countrymen, and merchants, before that of wits or scholars. (From the History of the Royal Society.) THE ERROR OF EXTEMPORE PRAYER AND PREACHING WE have lived... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...have exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking ; positive expressions ; clear senses ; a native easiness : bringing all things...countrymen, and merchants, before that of wits or scholars. (From the History of the Royal Society.) THE ERROR OF EXTEMPORE PRAYER AND PREACHING WE have lived... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Literary Collections - 1894 - 674 pages
...have exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking ; positive expressions ; clear senses ; a native easiness : bringing all things...countrymen, and merchants, before that of wits or scholars. (From the History of the Royal Society.) THE ERROR OF EXTEMPORE PRAYER AND PREACHING WE have lived... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - English fiction - 1894 - 322 pages
...all their members" (Dryden was one) " a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions, clear senses, a native easiness, bringing all things...plainness as they can; and preferring the language of artisans, countrymen, and merchants before that of wits or scholars," The remedy which is here prescribed... | |
 | Park Benjamin - Electricity - 1895 - 642 pages
...yesterday. It "exacted from all its members a close, naked, natural way of speaking, positive expressions, clear senses, a native easiness, bringing all things...plainness as they can, and preferring the language of artisans, countrymen and merchants before that of wits or scholars." Thence sprang that requirement... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1897 - 444 pages
...they "exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking, positive expressions, clear senses, a native easiness, bringing all things...near the mathematical plainness as they can," and passed " a resolution to reject all the amplifications,digressions, and swellings of style." No literary... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English literature - 1898 - 952 pages
...exacted from all their members " a close, naked, natural way of speaking — positive expressions, clear senses, a native easiness, bringing all things...plainness as they can, and preferring the language of artisans, countrymen, and merchants before that of wits or scholars." And he practises what he preaches,... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English literature - 1898 - 868 pages
...exacted from all their members " a close, naked, natural way of speaking — positive expressions, clear senses, a native easiness, bringing all things...plainness as they can, and preferring the language of artisans, countrymen, and merchants before that of wits or scholars." And he practises what he preaches,... | |
 | 1899 - 452 pages
...have exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking ; positive expressions ; clear senses ; a native easiness ; bringing all things...near the mathematical plainness as they can " ; and this in correction of all kinds of vicious aberration and voluble obscurity. The right manner is serried,... | |
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