| Stanton J. Linden - 392 Seiten
...expressions, clear senses, a native easiness, bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness as they can, and preferring the language of Artizans,...and Merchants, before that of Wits, or Scholars."" Thus Bacon's censures of the style of alchemical discourse were historically important in making distinctions... | |
| Gary Remer - 1996 - 336 Seiten
...expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans,...and Merchants, before that of Wits, or Scholars." Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal Society, ed. J. L Cope and HW Jones (St. Louis: Washington University... | |
| Everett Zimmerman - 1996 - 268 Seiten
...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.9 This imagined representational language is founded on notions of an originary pastoral condition... | |
| Kevin Pask - 1996 - 238 Seiten
...quasi-religious "primitive purity" and "Mathematical plainness" of language which he associates with the "language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that of Wits or Scholars" (CE, 2:118). He associates every form of "extravagance," such as "this vicious abundance of Phrase,... | |
| Z. Radman - 1996 - 208 Seiten
...expressions; clear fancies; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans,...and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars. (Sprat, 1966: 113) The tradition of »proper« and »improper« ways of rational procedure and scientific... | |
| Preben Mortensen - 1997 - 230 Seiten
...positive expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans,...and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars. (Sprat [1667] 1958,113) The incitement to a "close, naked, natural way of speaking" is partly directed... | |
| 1998 - 262 Seiten
...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" (Th. Sprat, History ofthe Royal Society, 1667). También John Locke en sus escritos sobre psicología... | |
| Dennis Freeborn - 1998 - 502 Seiten
...expreffions, clear fenfes; a native eafineis: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainnefi, as they can : and preferring the language of Artizans,...and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars. It is very clear from Thomas Sprat's attack on 'the luxury and redundance of speech' that he would... | |
| Nicholas Daly - 2000 - 232 Seiten
...time 'when Men deliver'd so many Things, almost in an equal number of \\'ords\ and his advocacy of'the Language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that of Wits, or Scholars'. 90 It is worth distinguishing among these complaints, though, which from one perspective may all seem... | |
| Charles Laurence Barber - 2000 - 324 Seiten
...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. Sprat's primitive purity and shortness is a myth: the kind of style he is describing is a highly sophisticated... | |
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