 The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two...  The British Educator - Seite 811856Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 752 Seiten
...we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed * . . crcry purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain workingmen,... | |
 | George Frederick Pardon - 1861 - 412 Seiten
...wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people . . . . For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1862 - 886 Seiten
...would puzzle the rudest peasant. We liave observed several pages which do not contain a single wrird of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said...was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our j literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of j the old, unpolluted English language;... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 Seiten
...we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of...sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which wo would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 Seiten
...theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant We have observed several pages which do not contain s single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer...divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working-men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book In our literature on which we would so readily... | |
 | Nathaniel George Clark - 1863 - 236 Seiten
...we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of...magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtile disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect,... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1863 - 254 Seiten
...expression, if we except a few terms in theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables1. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he wanted to say. For magnificence, for pathos,... | |
 | 1864 - 872 Seiten
...we except a few technical terms of tneology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of...divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working-men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1864 - 370 Seiten
...we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of...magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtile disquisition, — for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, — this homely... | |
 | 1901 - 834 Seiten
...Bunyan may easily be applied to Isaiah : "The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. . . . Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant...magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtile disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, the divine, this homely dialect, the... | |
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