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
 | John Bunyan - 1865 - 640 Seiten
...rudest peasant. \Ve have observed several pages which do not contain a single word J Entrofourtton. IX of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said...poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 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...writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. tor magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose... | |
 | Walter Simson, James Simson - 1866 - 604 Seiten
...uninspired man. Impugn it whoso list. Of the Pilgrim's Progress, Lord Macaulay, in his happy manner, writes: "For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...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 stake... | |
 | 1866 - 408 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...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,... | |
 | 1867 - 972 Seiten
...Personifications, when he dealt with them, became men." " The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people." " For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient," — Lord Macaulay. " Ingenious dreamer, in whose well-told tale Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 Seiten
...obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant...of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient."— Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays, L 420. thought he, had I no more in my eye than the saving... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 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...divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working-men, was per•' was ten o'clock was rea th tr be their MACAULAY. "iCil The head and body were... | |
 | Young people - 1869 - 684 Seiten
...obtain a 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... | |
 | Charles Henry W. Biggs - 1871 - 82 Seiten
...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...dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient." — (Ou BtmTAN.) 6. " Never had any writer so vast a command of the whole eloquence of scorn, misanthropy,... | |
 | John Boyd Grier - 1872 - 168 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...orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect pf plain workingmen, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could... | |
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