 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 ページ
...jentlemen wold read a merie talc in Bocasc."* ********* "As for the Latin and Greek tongue, every thing is so excellently done in them that none can do better; in the English tongue, contrary, every thing in a manner so meanly, both for the matter and handling, that no man can do worse. "He... | |
 | 1886 - 548 ページ
...THEODOBE S. FAY. THE ART OF WRITING. IN the Latin or Greek tongue everything is so excellently done that none can do better ; in the English tongue, contrary,...the matter and handling, that no man can do worse. For therein the least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. And they which... | |
 | James Henry Carlisle - 1890 - 312 ページ
...or commodity of the gentlemen and yeomen of England. As for the Latin or Greek tongue, every thing is so excellently done in them, that none can do better; in the English tongue, contrary, every thing in a manner so meanly both for the matter and handling, that no man can do worse" This... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 272 ページ
...or commodity -of the gentlemen and yeomen of England. As for the Latin or Greek tongue, every thing is so excellently -done in them, that none can do better ; in the English tongue, contrary, every thing in a manner so meanly loth for the matter and handling, that no man can do worse." This... | |
 | 1892 - 606 ページ
...yeomen of England, for whose sake- 1 took this matter in hand. And as for the Latin or Greek tongue, everything is so excellently done in them, that none...the matter and handling, that no man can do worse. For therein the least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. And they which... | |
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - 1892 - 482 ページ
...how that noble tongue had been neglected by other native writers: As for the Latin or Greek tongue, everything is so excellently done in them that none can do better; in the Knglish tongue, everything in a manner so mean, both for the manner and handling, that no man can do... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1893 - 560 ページ
...sicken even more THE ART OF WRITING. IN the Latin or Greek tongue everything is so excellently done that none can do better ; in the English tongue, contrary,...the matter and handling, that no man can do worse. For • therein the least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. And they... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1896 - 232 ページ
...yeomen of England, for whose sake I took this matter in hand. And as for the Latin or Greek tongue, everything is so excellently done in them, that none can do better : in the English tongue, on the contrary, everything in a manner so meanly, both for the matter and handling, that no man can... | |
 | Truman Jay Backus - 1897 - 508 ページ
...Ascham presents the following apology in the preface of his work : " As for the Latin or Greek tongue, everything is so excellently done in them that none...the matter and handling, that no man can do worse. . . . He that will write well in any tongue must follow the counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common... | |
 | Wells Hawks Skinner - 1897 - 282 ページ
...yeomen of England, for whose sake I took this matter in hand. And as for the Latin or Greek tongue, everything is so excellently done in them, that none...the matter and handling, that no man can do worse. STUDIES. I. Note the sentence length. 2. How many coordinate conjunctions used in clause connections?... | |
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And as for the Latin or Greek tongue, everything is so excellently done in them that none can do better. In the English tongue contrary, everything in a manner so meanly, both for the matter and handling, that no man can do worse. 
