 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 pages
...in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...of English words in which they might be expressed.' 3 Of Mallet's Life of Bacon, Johnson says (Works, viii. 465) that it is ' written with elegance, perhaps... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1887 - 614 pages
...war, and navigation from Raleigh ; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would bo lost to mankind for want of English words in which they might be expressed." At present, the works of Bacon hardly furnish terms for the precise enunciation of any one truth LEcT.... | |
 | Jean Roemer - 1888 - 714 pages
...purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translators of the Bible, the terms of natural knowledge from...of English words in which they might be expressed." Though the language for all common purposes was now complete, it may be proper to notice the fluctuations... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing - 1893 - 540 pages
...terms of natural knowledge were extracted from Lord Bacon's works, few ideas in that branch of learning would be lost to mankind for want of English words in which they might be expressed.1 Modern science would be much hampered by such a limitation of its verbal resources. Johnson's... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1908 - 334 pages
...and elegance might be formed from the authors who sprang up in the time of Elizabeth. "If," said he, "the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...mankind for want of English words in which they might be expressed."1 Whatever was Johnson's real belief as to what could be drawn from the sources he enumerated,... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1908 - 336 pages
...and elegance might be formed from the authors who sprang up in the time of Elizabeth. "If," said he, "the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the B^ble; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...all the purposes of use and elegance. If ^the language of theology were extracted from Hooker 30 ยป' and the translation of the Bible; the terms of natural...common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost 35 to mankind, for want of English words in which they might be expressed. It is not sufficient that... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Ralegh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life... | |
 | 1861 - 712 pages
...purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translators of the Bible, the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon, the phrases of war, policy, and navigation from Raleigh, the dialect of poetry from Spenser and Sidney, and the diction... | |
 | William Prideaux Courtney - 1915 - 206 pages
...the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Rakigh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and...English words, in which they might be expressed.' He had devoted ' this book, the labour of years, to the honour of my country, that we may no longer... | |
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From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible; the terms of natural knowledge from... 
