Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men,... Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Page 133by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 744 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1831 - 652 pages
...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,...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... | |
| Congregationalism - 1832 - 534 pages
...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,...divine, this homely dialect— the dialect of plain working men — is perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily... | |
| 1832 - 606 pages
...especially such better times ; and we are not afraid to say, j as were shut up [in their houses.*] The meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...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,...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... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1840 - 644 pages
...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,...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... | |
| American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...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,...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... | |
| 1879 - 824 pages
...except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence,...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... | |
| Religion - 1849 - 778 pages
...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,...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... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1849 - 872 pages
...several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer haŤ said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence,...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... | |
| Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...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,...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... | |
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