 We have observed several pages which do not contain 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...  The Life of John Bunyan - Page 280by Stephen B. Wickens - 1853 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1831 - 652 pages
...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...on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language — no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own... | |
 | 1832 - 534 pages
...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...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
...j as were shut up [in their houses.*] The meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose...on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language — no book which shews so well how rich that language is in its own... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...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...on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...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...on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...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...on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well [as the Pilgrim's Progress] how rich that... | |
 | 1879 - 826 pages
...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...on 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 - 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 plai» workingmen, was perfectly sufficient Thert is no book in our literature on which we could so... | |
 | 1849 - 788 pages
...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...on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own... | |
 | 1849 - 778 pages
...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...on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own... | |
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