 | 1835 - 430 pagine
...writer, and as the first Englishman who wrote the history of his country in its present language. The historical fragment commands belief by simplicity, and by abstinence from too confident affir mation. It betrays some negligence about minute particulars, which is not displeasing as a symptom... | |
 | 1835 - 432 pagine
...writer, and as the first Englishman who wrote the history of his country in its present language. The historical fragment commands belief by simplicity, and by abstinence from too confident afBr mation. It betrays some negligence about minute particulars, which is not displeasing as a symptom... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 618 pagine
...writer, and as the first Englishman who wrote the history of his country in its present language. The historical fragment^ commands belief by simplicity,...rotundity (which gratify the ear without awakening the sus* More, p. 38. t " Postquam pugnatum est npud Actium, magna illa ingenia ceasere." — Tacitus,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1848 - 630 pagine
...writer, and as the first Englishman who wrote the history of his country in its present language. The historical fragment§ commands belief by simplicity,...rotundity (which gratify the ear without awakening the eus* More, p. 38. t " Posiqunm pugnatum est apud Aetium, magna illa ingenia cessere." — Tacitus,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1850 - 597 pagine
...writer, and as the first Englishman who wrote the history of his country in its present language. The historical fragment^ commands belief by simplicity,...rotundity (which gratify the ear without awakening the sus* More, p. 38. t " Postquam pugnatum est apud Actium, magna ilia ingenia cessere." — Tacitus,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1871 - 616 pagine
...Englishman who wrote the history of hi. country in its present language. The hin torical fragmcnt§ commands belief by simplicity, and by abstinence from...to enforce a narrative. The composition has an ease anc a rotundity (which gratify the ear without awakening the sus* More. p. 38. t " I'ostquam pupnntum... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 pagine
...written in 1513, but was not printed till 1557. "The historical fragment," says Sir James Mackintosh, "commands belief by simplicity, and by abstinence...no model in any preceding writer of English prose." A man as admirable as More, though of very different temperament, was Hugh Latimer, the great Reformer.... | |
 | Thomas Edward Bridgett - 1891 - 544 pagine
...Englishman who wrote the history of his country in its present language. The composition has an ease and rotundity which gratify the ear without awakening...no model in any preceding writer of English prose." * II. TRANSLATION OF LUCIAN. We have seen the friendship that sprang up between More and Erasmus during... | |
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It betrays some negligence about minute particulars, which is not displeasing as a symptom of the absence of eagerness to enforce a narrative. The composition has an ease and a rotundity (which gratify the ear without awakening the sus* More, p. 