A Bibliographical Dictionary; Containing a Chronological Account ... of ... Books: In All Departments of Literature ... with Biographical Anecdotes ... the Whole of the Fourth Edition of Dr. Harwood's View of the Classics, with Innumerable Additions and Amendments. To which are Added, an Essay on Bibliography ... and an Account of the Best English Translation of Each Greek and Latin Classic ...W. Baynes, 1803 |
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Страница 234 - No man, that ever wrote, knew the power and force of words better than Cicero. He rolls them along with the greatest beauty and pomp ; and in the structure of his sentences, is curious and exact to the highest degree.
Страница 86 - The Hebrew Concordance, adapted to the English Bible, disposed after the manner of Buxtorf. By John Taylor, DD Lond. 1754, 2 vols, fol."— This is a very useful work of the kind, especially to the English scholar. It was the fruit of many years' labour of the industrious author, and was published under the patronage of all the English and Irish bishops.
Страница 233 - His sentences are, at all times, round and sonorous ; they cannot be accused of monotony, for they possess variety of cadence ; but, from too great a study of magnificence, he is sometimes deficient in strength.
Страница 14 - Bible, the glory of that age, and of the English church and nation ; a work vastly exceeding all former attempts of that kind, and that came so near perfection, as to discourage all future ones.
Страница 113 - Lexicon,' in four volumes folio ; a work which employed him seven years, and in 1747 he published the first volume. The original of this work was the concordance of Rabbi Nathan, a Jew, entitled ' Meir Nethib,' published at Venice in 1523, fol. with great faults and defects. A second edition was published at Basil by Froben, much more correct, in 1581, fol. The third edition is this of Calasio, which he swelled into four large volumes, by adding, 1. A Latin translation of Rab. Nathan's explanation...
Страница 113 - Nethih," published at Venice in 1523, fol. with great faults and defects. A second edition was published at Basil by Froben, much more correct, in 1581, fol. The third edition is this of Calasio, which he swelled into four large volumes by adding, 1. A Latin translation of Rab. Nathan's explanation of the several roots, with the author's own enlargements. 2. The Rabbinical, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic words, derived from, or agreeing with the Hebrew root in signification. 3. A literal version of...
Страница 234 - He begins generally, with a regular exordium ; and with much preparation and insinuation prepossesses the hearers, and studies to gain their affections. His method is clear and his arguments are arranged with great propriety.
Страница 235 - They cannot be accused of monotony, since they possess variety of cadence ; but from too great a fondness for magnificence, he is, on some occasions, deficient in strength. Though the services which he had performed to his country were very considerable, yet he is too much his own panegyrist. Ancient manners, which imposed fewer restraints on the side of decorum, may in some degree excuse, but cannot entirely justify, his vanity.
Страница 235 - When an important public object rouses his mind, and demands indignation and force, he departs considerably from that loose and declamatory manner to which he at other times is addicted, and becomes very forcible and vehement. This great orator, however, is not without his defects. In most of his orations there is too much art, even carried to a degree of ostentation. He seems often desirous of obtaining admiration rather than of operating by conviction.
Страница 234 - In all his orations, his art is conspicuous. He begins commonly with a regular exordium, and with much address prepossesses the hearers, and studies to gain their affections. His method is clear, and his arguments are arranged with exact propriety. In a superior clearness of method, he has an advantage over Demosthenes. Every thing appears in its proper place. He never tries to move till he has attempted to convince ; and in moving, particularly the softer passions, he is highly successful. No one...