Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1738 Excerpt: ... turned it: and he might be said in truth Dial. rather to prick the subjeffi that he handled IV. than to fierce it through. This is often the lYNJ character of Seneca himself, and commonly that of sententious Authors. They never follow on a thought to a just length. From plain expressions (which generally they avoid) you are brought immediately to an unusual metaphor; which is scarce finish'd, but there follows a quite disparate notion. Then an affectation of opposites, which is a continual source of false eloquence, makes them seem acute, but you soon perceive the edge was too sine not to be easily turn'd. That fame affectation makes it seem, as if the quarrelsome humour of the age had possessed some writers. Not only meaning their quarrels with one another, but also the wrangling of their own words. In some of them you will scarce find a quiet sentence in a whole book. All is sharp points and oppositions. Every word stands in battle against it's brisk antithesis, and is sure to meet a sharp dapper adverfary before the end of the sentence. Solinus y tells us of. a stone, and it is counted a Gem too, by mmcSyderitis,which breeds discord whereever it comes. Certainly these men have mixt in their Ink the dust of this stone, since almost every period is antithetical and y Histor. Nat. cap. 40. Syderitii maltficm, quotunqHe inferatur. diswdias excitat.. K 2 quarrel Dial, quarrelling one part with the other,'and freIV. quently jarring with sense and reason. Critom. I perceive you are both strangely averse from concise Styles. Nor will I deny but they have great part of the inconveniences you have mention d 5 yet methinks it is better to lie under those inconveniences, than return to long rolling periods, that fill each of them a page; where reason is spread too f...
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