 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Literary Collections - 1894 - 674 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 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... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 376 pages
...expressions, 5 clear senses, a native easiness, bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness as they can, and preferring the language of Artizans,...or Scholars. And here there is one thing not to be pass'd by, which 10 will render this establish'd custom of the Society well nigh everlasting, and that... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 376 pages
...expressions, 5 clear senses, a native easiness, bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness as they can, and preferring the language of Artizans,...or Scholars. And here there is one thing not to be pass'd by, which 10 will render this establish'd custom of the Society well nigh everlasting, and that... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 388 pages
...condemnation of rhetorical figures and of all efforts at ' fine speaking', and his preference for ' the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants before that of Wits or Scholars', should influence literary taste beyond the halls of Gresham College. Mulgrave, who echoes Dryden's... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 374 pages
...condemnation of rhetorical figures and of all efforts at ' fine speaking ', and his preference for ' the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants before that of Wits or Scholars', should influence literary taste beyond the halls of Gresham College. Mulgrave, who echoes Dryden's... | |
 | Norman Pearson - Eighteenth century - 1911 - 532 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." All this seems admirable common sense. And yet through the last half of the seventeenth and the first... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1912 - 534 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. So writes Sprat, the first historian of the Royal Society. Almost at the same time, in December 1664,... | |
 | Classical Association (Great Britain) - Classical literature - 1913 - 438 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, The History of the Royal Society of London (published 1667), p. 113. * lh G. M mli.... | |
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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,... 
