 | Thomas Sprat - English poetry - 1667 - 470 pages
...this volubility of Tongue., which makes fb great a noiie in the World. But I fpend words in vain j for the evil is now fo inveterate, that it is hard...where to begin to reform. We all value one another fb much, upon this beautiful deceipt ; and labour fb long after it, in the years of our education :... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - Oratory - 1760 - 382 pages
...trick of metaphors, this volubility of tongue, which makes fo great noife in the world, but I fpend words in vain ; for the evil is now fo inveterate,...deceit, and labour fo long after it, in the years of our B. But thefe orators we were fpeakiog of, have two defigns that are commendable. A. What are they ?... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - Oratory - 1810 - 184 pages
...tongue, which makes so great noise in the world. But 1 spend words in vain ; for the evil is now so inveterate, that it is hard to know whom to blame...where to begin to reform. We all value one another so much upon this beautiful deceit, and labour so long after it, in the years of our education ; that... | |
 | George Campbell - Oratory - 1832 - 320 pages
...tongue, which makes so great noise in the world. But I spend words in vain ; for the evil is now so inveterate, that it is hard to know whom to blame,...where to begin to reform. We all value one another so much upon this beautiful deceit, and labour BO long after it, in the years of our education, that... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Literary Collections - 1894 - 674 pages
...tongue, which makes so great a noise in the world. But I spend words in vain ; for the evil is now so inveterate, that it is hard to know whom to blame,...where to begin to reform. We all value one another so much upon this beautiful deceit, and labour so long after it in the years of our education, that... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...tongue, which makes so great a noise in the world. But I spend words in vain ; for the evil is now so inveterate, that it is hard to know whom to blame,...where to begin to reform. We all value one another so much upon this beautiful deceit, and labour so long after it in the years of our education, that... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...tongue, which makes so great a noise in the world. But I spend words in vain ; for the evil is now so inveterate, that it is hard to know whom to blame,...where to begin to reform. We all value one another so much upon this beautiful deceit, and labour so long after it in the years of our education, that... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 376 pages
...which makes so great a noise in the World. ) 1 5 But I spend words in vain, for the evil is now so inveterate that it is hard to know whom to blame,...where to begin to reform. We all value one another so much upon this beautiful deceipt, and labour so long after it in the years of our education, that... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 376 pages
...Tongue, which makes so great a noise in the World. 15 But I spend words in vain, for the evil is now so inveterate that it is hard to know whom to blame,...where to begin to reform. We all value one another so much upon this beautiful deceipt, and labour so long after it in the years of our education, that... | |
 | Johann Valentin Andreä - Utopias - 1914 - 324 pages
...tongue which makes so great a noise in the world. But I spend words in vain ; for the evil is now so inveterate, that it is hard to know whom to blame or where to begin the reform." This scorn of artificial application of rhetoric has already been brought out in a preceding... | |
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Studies of men, nothing may be sooner obtain'd, than this vicious abundance of Phrase, this trick of Metaphors, this volubility of Tongue, which makes so great a noise in the World. But I spend words in vain ; for the evil is now so inveterate, that it... 
