 | 1858 - 402 pages
...More's. The quotation following, is from the preface to " Toxophilus," a treatise on Archery. " He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this...understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him." Ascham was the author of the " Schoolmaster." To give a specimen of Spenser's style is to pluck a leaf... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1858 - 1022 pages
...fellow thi» counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common ! р-í'ple do. to think as wise men do: ал so should every man understand him. and the judgment of wise men allow him." The book is a dialogue supported by Philologue, a student, and Toxophilns, a lover of archery. We have... | |
 | 1858 - 430 pages
...model of a pure English prose style. His general direction to the gentlemen and yeomen of England was "To speak as the common people do; to think as wise men do." Thomas Wilson, in his "Art of Rhetorick" (1553) complains of the number of foreign terms and phrases... | |
 | Shuttleworth family - 1858 - 440 pages
...model of a pure English prose style. His general direction to the gentlemen and yeomen of England was " To speak as the common people do ; to think as wise men do." Thomas Wilson, in his "Art of Rhetorick" (1553) complains of the number of foreign terms and phrases... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 pages
...for the matter and handling, that no man can do worse. ... He that will write well In any tongue nmst follow this counsel of Aristotle : to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do : as BO should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him." The book ia a dialogue... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1860 - 410 pages
...any tongue must follow Aristotle's counsel : Speak as the common people do, and think as wise men do, so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him." 8(5 Identity as / is no more susceptible of multiplication than unity. If we is the plural of I, it... | |
 | George Winfred Hervey - 1860 - 422 pages
...expression is best suited for colloquial intercourse. In all cases, Aristotle's rule is a good one, " to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do." — ED. f " A compliment," it has been well observed, -' is generally accompanied by a bew, as if to... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 624 pages
...all the Gentlemen and Yeomen of England, he recommends to him that would write well in any tongue the counsel of Aristotle,—" To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do." From this we may perceive that Ascham had a true feeling of the regard due to the great fountain-head... | |
 | 1861 - 882 pages
...of our peasantry, that to this day the best advice for purity of style is that of Koger Ascnam's, ' to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.' And one of the first things that strikes us in the registers is the English straggling through the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 pages
...all the Gentlemen and Yeomen of England, he recommends to him that would write well in any tongue the counsel of Aristotle, — " To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do." From this we may perceive that Ascham had a true feeling of the regard due to the great fountain-head... | |
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He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do; and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. 
