 A man can never speak too well where he speaks not too obscure. Long and distended clauses are both tedious to the ear and difficult for their retaining. A sentence well couched, takes both the sense and the understanding.  Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political - Página 66por Owen Felltham - 1832 - 316 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Owen Felltham - 1820 - 552 páginas
...both the senses and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches which are longer than the memory of man can fathom. I see not, but that divinity...apt significants, might ravish as well as poetry. They are sermons but of baser metal, which lead the eyes to slumber. He answered well, that after often... | |
 | 206 páginas
...longer tban the memory of man can fathom. I see nut but that divinity, put into apt signification, might ravish as well as poetry. The weighty lines...complain of drowsiness at a sermon ; when a play of a double length leads us on still with alacrity. But the fault is not all in ourselves. If we saw divinity... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1823 - 432 páginas
...both the sense and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches, that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. I see not, but that divinity,...complain of drowsiness at a sermon ; when a play of a double length, leads us on still with alacrity. But the fault is not all in ourselves. If we saw divinity... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1823 - 432 páginas
...both the sense and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches, that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. I see not, but that divinity,...poetry. The weighty lines men find upon the stage, T am persuaded, have been the lures to draw away the pulpit's followers. We complain of drowsiness... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 páginas
...both the sense and the understanding. I love not those carl-rope speeches^ that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. I see not but that Divinity,...am persuaded, have been the lures, to draw away the pulpitfolloroers. We complain of drowsinpss at a sermon, when a. play of a doubled length, leads men... | |
 | 1846 - 524 páginas
...both the sense and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. I see not but that divinity...find upon the stage, I am persuaded, have been the means to draw away the pulpit's followers. We complain of drowsiness at a sermon when a play of a doubled... | |
 | 1846 - 508 páginas
...both the sense and the understanding. 1 love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. I see not but that divinity...put into apt significants, might ravish as. well as he weighty lines men find upon the stage, I am persuaded, have been the means to draw away the pulpit's... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1847 - 322 páginas
...both the sense and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. I see not but that divinity...find upon the stage, I am persuaded, have been the means to draw away the pulpit's followers. We complain of drowsiness at a sermon, when a play of a... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1847 - 352 páginas
...and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man cau fathom. I see not but. that divinity put into apt...find upon the stage, I am persuaded, have been the means to draw away the pulpit's followers. We complain of drowsiness at a sermon, when a play of a... | |
 | Daniel Owen Madden - 1848 - 340 páginas
...ly of what such a man as Kirwan might do in the pulpit : — " I see not," says this old writer,. " but that divinity, put into apt significants, might ravish as well as poetry. We complain of drowsiness at a sermon, when a play of double length leads us on still with alacrity.... | |
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