... look or gesture, passeth for it: sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being: sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange: sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose.... The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow - Seite 352von Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| James Hamilton - 1857 - 494 Seiten
...sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how," <fec. Considering that Barrow... | |
| James Hamilton - 1857 - 532 Seiten
...sometimes a presumptuous bluntncss, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how," &<;. Considering that Barrow... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 Seiten
...sometimes a pre sumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting...what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its way*" are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings... | |
| William Evans Burton - 1859 - 690 Seiten
...sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, gives it being. Sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting...and plain way (such as reason teacheth and proveth tilings by), which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse... | |
| Isaac Barrow - 1859 - 584 Seiten
...simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being: sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting...short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain wayt, (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by,) which, by a pretty surprising uncouthness in... | |
| James Boswell - 1859 - 320 Seiten
...sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, givcth it being; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wresting...inexplicable ; being answerable to the numberless ravings of fancy, and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 Seiten
...sometimes u presumptuous bluntness, gives it being. Sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting...the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not whut, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being... | |
| Francis Wayland - 1859 - 442 Seiten
...sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose : often it consisted! in one knows not what, and springeth up one knows not how. Its ways are unaccountable and... | |
| Christian classics, James Hamilton - 1859 - 786 Seiten
...is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consists iu one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how," &c. Considering that Barrow wrote his sermons three or four times over, it is wonderful that his sounder... | |
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