 | Carson Samuel Duncan - English literature - 1918 - 204 pages
...Knowledge of Nature from the Colours of Rhetoric, the Deceits of Fancy, or the Deceits of Fables," p. 62. "Preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that of Wits and Scholars." p. 118. knew this and selected with some care the more sensational experiments. By thus... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 pages
...expressions ; clear senses ; a native easiness : bringing all things as near the mathematical plainness as they can ; and preferring the language of artizans,...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... | |
 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 408 pages
...expressions, clear senses, a native eas'ness, bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness as they can, and preferring the language of Artizans,...Countrymen, and Merchants before that of Wits or Scholars. So writes Sprat, the first historian of the Royal Society. Almost at the same time, in December 1664,... | |
 | Sir Archibald Strong - English literature - 1921 - 428 pages
...expressions, clear senses, a native easiness, bringing all things as near the mathematical plainness as they can, and preferring the language of artizans, countrymen, and merchants before that of poets or scholars.' Tlie Holy War. but be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was. He that... | |
 | Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson - English essays - 1926 - 160 pages
...close, naked, natural way of speaking ; positive expressions, clear senses, a native easiness, . . . preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars. ' ' Such an ideal of prose style would inevitably reach beyond the meeting room where these scientific... | |
 | Paul Milton Fulcher - English essays - 1927 - 336 pages
...expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the mathematical plainness as they can; and preferring the language of artizans,...countrymen, and merchants, before that of wits or scholars. THOMAS SPRAT: History of the Royal Society. SIMPLICITY THE first obligation of Economy is that of using... | |
 | Hermann Martin Flasdieck - English language - 1928 - 264 pages
...expressions, clear senses, a native easiness, bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness as they can, and preferring the language of Artizans,...Countrymen, and Merchants, before that of Wits or Scholars3). Einer der Führer der Bewegung war Bischof W ilkins , der leitende Geist der Oxforder Gruppe4).... | |
 | University of Iowa - Philology - 1928 - 760 pages
...close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions, clear senses, a native easiness, . . . preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars. ' ' Such an ideal of prose style would inevitably reach beyond the meeting room where these scientific... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 pages
...expressions, clear senses, a native easiness, bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness as they can, and preferring the language of Artizans,...Countrymen, and Merchants, before that of Wits or Scholars. These ideals, obviously essential to scientific exposition, were reinforced by the conversational tradition... | |
 | Stephen Doheny-Farina - Computers - 1988 - 376 pages
...expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical! plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans,...Countrymen, and Merchants, before that of Wits, or Scholars. Often viewed as a reaction to the figurative and ornamental excesses of what has been called "Ciceronian"... | |
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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,... 
