 | 1802 - 552 pągines
...becomes obfcure, when the language of the writer cea fes to be a living language. He is coramatic, to ufe St. Jerome's word, more than any other of the prophets. He writes in ihort, detached, disjointed fentences } not wrought up into periods, in which the connection of one... | |
 | 1828 - 632 pągines
...own, not arising from any peculiar idioms of antiquity, or of his own age. He delights in a stile, which always becomes obscure, when the language of...connection of one clause with another, and the dialectic relation?, are made manifest to the reader by an artificial collocation ; and by those connexh e particles... | |
 | William Greenfield - 1831 - 310 pągines
...parts are peculiarly pathetic, animated, and sublime. ' He delights in a style,' says Bp. Horsley, 'which always becomes obscure when the language of...sentences; not wrought up into periods, in which the connexion of one clause with another, and the dialectic relations, are made manifest to the reader... | |
 | William Greenfield - 1831 - 300 pągines
...parts are peculiarly pathetic, animated, and sublime. ' He delights in a style,' says Up. Horsley, 'which always becomes obscure when the language of...sentences ; not wrought up into periods, in which the connexion of one clause with another, and the dialectic relations, are made manifest to the reader... | |
 | 1838 - 900 pągines
...subject ; but his country generally, in both its branches, not in either taken by itself." jointed 836 connective particles that make one discourse of parts, which otherwise appear as a string of unconnected... | |
 | Bradford Kinney Peirce - 1847 - 354 pągines
...becomes obscure when the language of the writer ceases to be a living language. He is more laconic than any other of the prophets. He writes in short, detached, disjointed sen tences ; not wrought up into periods, in which the connection of one clause with another, and their... | |
 | Bradford Kinney Peirce - 1853 - 370 pągines
...becomes obscure when the language of the writer ceases to be a living language. He is more laconic than any other of the prophets. He writes in short,...which the connection of one clause with another, and their relations to each other, are made manifest to the reader by an artificial collocation, and by... | |
 | Alfred Nevin - 1858 - 360 pągines
...sins and gross idolatry, and to warn Judah against falling into the same courses. He is more laconic than any other of the prophets. He writes in short, detached, disjointed sentences. But to these very circumstances does his style owe that eagerness and animation by which it is characterized.... | |
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He delights in a style, which always becomes obscure, when the language of the writer ceases to be a living language. He is commatic, to use St Jerome's word, more than any other of the prophets. He writes in short, detached, disjointed sentences ; not... 