 | Greek - 1859 - 568 pages
...that the sentences may run smoothly, and not overcharge the ear with a useless load of words : — " Close be your language : let your sense be clear, Nor with a weight ofwords fatigue the ear." Est demum vera felicitas, felicitate dignum videri. Lat. FLINT. — "Real... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 pages
...must be pronounced in distinct syllables; as, Deity. COMPOSITION OR STYLE. ' Concise your diction, let your sense be clear, Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear.' — Francis. Composition is the art of expressing our thoughts by written language. To compose correctly and perspicuously,... | |
 | Quotations - 1869 - 534 pages
...that the sentences may run smoothly, and not overcharge the ear with a useless load of words:" — "Close be your language: let your sense be clear, Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear." Est demum vera felicitas, felicitate dignum videri. Lat. — PLINY. — "Real happiness consists in... | |
 | Quotations - 1875 - 540 pages
...that the sentences may run smoothly, and not overcharge the ear with a. useless load of words:" — "Close be your language: let your sense be clear, Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear." Est demum vera felicitas, felicitate dignum videri. Lat. — PLINY. — "Real happiness consists in... | |
 | James Hildyard - 1879 - 464 pages
...that, " Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, neu se Impediat verbia laasas onerantibus aures." " Close be your language ; let your sense be clear ; Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear." Such is not the style of Lord Derby's nervous harangues, nor such of Disraeli's addresses to the House.... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pages
...all other virtues. Righteousness is worth nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other. Close be your language ; let your sense be clear, Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear. Superficial writers, like the mole, often fancy themselves deep when they are exceeding near the surface.... | |
 | Missions - 1884 - 1304 pages
...be careful of the time of others. No man has a right to be diffuse or wasteful, even with words. ' Close be your language : let your sense be clear, Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear.' LITERARY NOTICES. GalaEXECETICAL STUDIES. By PATON J. GLOAO, DD, Minister of Gt shiels. Edinburgh :... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Grenville Kleiser - English language - 1911 - 190 pages
...always enfeebling. They make the sentence move along tardy and encumbered. ' ' Concise your diction, let your sense be clear, Nor, with a weight of words, fatigue the ear." It is a general maxim that any words which do not add some importance to the meaning of a sentence,... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1826 - 432 pages
...oum-.' <> //•'// " ", • ••.:•' Vl- . ' . •*.. '.. ^ " • ' •* Concise your diction, let your sense be clear, '..''"• ' '• • ;* '..."^-' Nor, with a weight of words fatigue the ear.' ..,.'. In his works, we may observe his words are well chosen, being pure. proper to his subject, and... | |
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In raillery assume a gayer air, Discreetly hide your strength, your vigour spare; For ridicule shall frequently prevail, And cut the knot, when graver reasons fail. 
