| 单词 | perspicuous |
| 例句 | It’s a shame, since her vision and craft were so lively and perspicuous. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z But were Tagovailoa a combat sport athlete — a boxer or mixed martial artist — there would be a timeline for return as perspicuous as if he were found to be taking banned performance-enhancing drugs. Perspective | State agencies can suspend concussed fighters. Why not NFL players? 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The different interplaying factors — fascism, identity politics, neoliberal economics, terror, globalization — have all come to full fruition as any perspicuous observer might have noted for many years. How we got from George W. Bush to Donald Trump: Liberals had more to do with it than we’d like to think 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z When experience has once clearly exhibited these facts and science has marshalled them in economic and perspicuous order, there is no doubt that we shall understand them. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z One must be extremely exact, clear, and perspicuous, in everything one says, otherwise, instead of entertaining, or informing others, one only tires and puzzles them. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z Now if it had been M. de Vidoche who had poisoned her, that would have been plain, intelligible, perspicuous; since everyone knew--and so on, and so on, with Mademoiselle de Farincourt's name at intervals. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z Nevertheless, in this I have made, 1, a great Number of small Alterations in the Diction, and added several Words, to render the Work still more simple and perspicuous. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health 2012-03-10T03:00:11.780Z There is one thing in the world that must always be faultlessly perspicuous and distinct, and that is a marching order in time of battle. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z Many of his best characters and situations require a volume of commentary to make them perspicuous. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z This I doubt not, but most Saints in som measure, do experimentally know, therefore I will not seek by argument, to prove a thing so perspicuous. Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653) 2011-10-29T02:00:17.500Z His descriptions of the Rickets, Rupture, Rheumatism, Scrophula, Dropsy, Scurvy, &c. are equally perspicuous and perfect. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z In explaining and defending the doctrines and precepts of Christianity he was calm, perspicuous, and often very ingenious. Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. 2011-10-13T02:00:37.230Z His writings are generally perspicuous and full of light, and often they discover the sardonic and sharp smile of Voltaire. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z I saw that you were tempted by the fear of not seeming a patriot to dillydally with the situation and avoid expressing yourself in perspicuous language. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z To be clear or perspicuous a meaning must be detached, single, self-contained, homogeneous as it were, throughout. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z It is clear, it is precise, it is perspicuous, it is neat to a fault. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z A term of such latitude as interval, requires to be explained in the most perspicuous and accurate manner. Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-23T02:00:29.227Z He has written equally for the uninitiated and the philosopher; and he has rendered his details amusing as well as perspicuous, elegant as well as simple. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z A term of such latitude as interval requires to be explained in the most perspicuous and accurate manner. Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-14T02:00:24.997Z It consists in putting an argument into 'the most perspicuous form in which it can be exhibited,'*—i. e., in communicating it in the most efficient way to others. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z The ideas of the author became more perspicuous and digested as his inquiries advanced. Anarchism 2011-07-12T02:00:35.053Z Its arrangement is judicious; its style neat, always perspicuous, and often elegant; and its principles sound. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z As a historian, the author is acute and perspicuous, judicious in the selection and arrangement of his materials, and clear and interesting in his narrative. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z His language is sufficiently perspicuous to convey his meaning, and possesses force which any considerable change would impair. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z The Pocket Companion, for Machinists, Mechanics, and Engineers, by Oliver Byrne, is a remarkable specimen of perspicuous condensation. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z Among greater men, he had excellent praise for William Morris, a just appreciation of Pater, an enthusiasm for Meredith, the expression of which he afterwards used in Intentions, and a perspicuous criticism of Swinburne. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z His explanation of the causes of the strike and boycott is perspicuous and logical, his outline of the causes of its failure coherent and convincing, his suggestion of means for avoiding its recurrence absolutely right. The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike 2011-05-02T02:00:15.510Z In order to do this in a perspicuous and satisfactory manner, let us consider the occasion on which we first became acquainted with the truth of the principle, that every effect must have a cause. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z These lesser compositions show his mastery of simple and perspicuous style; but the specific qualities of his best work, its color and imagery and pointed humor, are absent. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z This will render the following Appendix, in which there must be constant reference to the discovery of MSS. and the labours of commentators, somewhat more distinct and perspicuous than I could otherwise make it. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Every person has sometimes occasion to consult a work of this kind, and there is no other in English so masterly in treatment, or so perspicuous in style. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z The meaning of these two lines is not quite perspicuous, and they may be corrupt; only this one thing is clear, that these two knights are Torrent and his son, who belong to different parties. Torrent of Portyngale 2011-02-11T03:00:28.940Z Mr. Hallam pronounced it "the first example of good English--pure and perspicuous, well chosen, without vulgarisms or pedantry." The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z No one can read the pure and simple language of the poet without feeling that his mind was as transparent as his style, his character as ingenuous as his diction was perspicuous. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Of all the ornaments of historic composition, it derives its chief embellishment from a graceful and perspicuous style. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z It may be observed with respect to the method followed by Linnæus in his arrangements, that he has generally chosen the most simple and perspicuous that he could devise. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History These things then are understood not by this or by that Doctor, but by all Catholics with one voice, that the authority of the Church Catholic agreeing is most certain, irrefragable, and perspicuous. The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries The succeeding transactions are matter of familiar, though not, perhaps, very perspicuous history. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 A profound mathematician, Cauchy exercised by his perspicuous and rigorous methods a great influence over his contemporaries and successors. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" But, of all the various arts of oratory, he most remarkably excelled in a happy and perspicuous arrangement of his subject. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z He was a great artist; his style is perspicuous, plastic, and pure; there is never a blurred outline, never a smear, never a halting phrase or a hesitating note. An Outline of Russian Literature Mr. Ewing-Ritchie writes in a pointed, perspicuous, somewhat staccato manner, and is never too long. The Religious Life of London Gallantry is their main theme, an interesting and complicated, but well-constructed and perspicuous intrigue their chief feature; and this is usually accompanied by an underplot in which the gracioso plays his part. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Mr. Graub had attended the trial in person, and he had hardly ceased since to admire himself for his own perspicuous cleverness in owning the house where such a very distinguished crime had been committed. Anne His narrative is less perspicuous, less dramatic, less spirited, and less life-like than the original. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition It is free, manly, simple, perspicuous, energetic, and varied. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century At most, he says, it may be necessary to admit that the translation is not perspicuous. The History of Freedom Light and perspicuous in construction, he is master of the delicate play of irony, the penetrating force of wit, and the expansive gaiety of frolicsome fun. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Notwithstanding Avogadro’s perspicuous investigation, and a similar exposition of the atom and molecule by A. M. Ampere, the views therein expressed were ignored both by Berzelius. their own and the succeeding generation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" The necessary connexion of thought with the construction of a perspicuous sentence, has not, to my knowledge, been previously noticed. On the Nature of Thought or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence Nothing could be more terse, perspicuous, and conclusive than the great man's opinion. Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. He recognised this way of looking at the unusual as profound and perspicuous. When Ghost Meets Ghost His Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars are models of pure and perspicuous prose, and his other work, voluminous but now lost, was doubtless of equal merit. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Gray said himself that the style he aimed at was 'extreme conciseness of expression, yet pure, perspicuous, and musical.' Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer It may excite some surprise that an Essay on Thought should be connected with the construction of a perspicuous sentence. On the Nature of Thought or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence God's answer was equally brief and perspicuous: "Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed." Bible Romances First Series The next sect to the Epicureans, in point of incredulity, concerning the soul, 1 conceive to be the Sceptics, who were by some esteemed, not only the modestest, but the most perspicuous of all sects. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." No discussion took place till after dinner, but then the Dean was very perspicuous, and at the same time very authoritative. Is He Popenjoy? This is just what a Parliamentary report ought to be—calm, perspicuous, and decided. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 The deepest doctrines of morality have since that time been treated in the perspicuous and popular style, and with some degree of the beauty and eloquence of the ancient moralists. A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations His strongest point is his style; there he is clear, concise and apt, perspicuous, elegant and brilliant. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight When this heterogeneous mass of evidence is classed by his perspicuous arrangement, his audience feel no difficulty either in understanding or recollecting all which had before appeared confused. Practical Education, Volume II Her letters are skilful but, owing to their allusions and antitheses, far from perspicuous products of reflection, although succinct and rich in matter. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) This catalogue possesses, what every similar one should possess, a compendious and perspicuous account of the collector. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance For reasoning, acute, profound, and perspicuous, both metaphysical and moral, this work has seldom been surpassed. On Calvinism He wrote epigrammatic, incisive, perspicuous German, stimulating and suggestive, such as Lessing used. Jewish Literature and Other Essays The analogies which strike his own mind, the arrangement of ideas, which to him appears the most perspicuous, to his pupil may appear remote and confused. Practical Education, Volume II On this subject we shall now proceed to unfold our views in as orderly and perspicuous a manner as possible. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory The statements are plain and simple, a perfect model of perspicuous narrative. Modern Spiritualism It has all the requisites of a good style; it is concise, perspicuous, simple and occasionally sublime. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 The style is excellent; sound, honest, forcible, singularly perspicuous English; at times with a sort of picturesque simplicity, pictures dashed off with only a few touches, but perfectly alive ... Ancient States and Empires Or it may yet take a more definite and perspicuous form, even to the transmission of details such as the names of persons and places, of numbers, forms and incidents. Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance But the general tenor, though not elegant, is plain and perspicuous; and such has it been here retained. New observations on the natural history of bees This is at all times a great aid to a clear and perspicuous statement. Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching The style of the present performance is not at all inferior, and it is especially commendable for a perspicuous compactness. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Rogers’ poem is disliked; the cry is all against it; some of the lines are pretty, but it is not perspicuous enough, and is deficient in novelty and force. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I Thus Xenophon, the simplest and most perspicuous of Historians, has borrowed many noble images from Homer; and Plato is often indebted to this Poet, whom yet he banished from his Commonwealth. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients Mr Secretary Walpole introduced the Militia Bill in a statement equally perspicuous and persuasive. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Volume 2, 1844-1853 They seem to me to be perspicuous and intelligible in every part and in every sentence. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 This is evident from An Account of Religion by Reason, a brochure presented to the Earl of Dorset, wherein his perspicuous style appears to good advantage, joined with well-digested thought and argument. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy He reminded his audience that even the most perspicuous people in past times had made the grossest blunders when they judged their own age. Poems: New and Old This is accomplished in a series of lectures written in a perspicuous, pleasing style, and treating of the various studies pursued in a well regulated school for young ladies. Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman He is a wonderful writer—one sui generis—uniting the perspicuity of the English—for we are perspicuous—with the cool, dispassionate reasoning of the Germans. Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest What followed was far from being equally perspicuous. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Let the Introduction to his Text be brief and perspicuous, drawn from the Text itself, or context, or some parallel place, or generall sentence of Scripture. To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work His frankness, lucid style, perspicuous sense, made him as effective a writer in his own manner as the more intrepid Hamilton. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Although a separate relation will derange the thread of Tasmanian history, the reader may be compensated by a view more perspicuous and useful. The History of Tasmania , Volume II Mr. Field is a clear headed man, master of his subject, perspicuous in his rhetoric, and distinct in his elocution, so that our new constitution was most advantageously displayed before his learned and critical hearers. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 The following is my translation, which, in that gentleman's account of Ashantee, is coupled with another translation, not perspicuous, but unintelligible; for which see Bowdich's "Account of a Mission to Ashantee," Appendix, No. 2. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa We associate the term with thought, rugged, perspicuous, easily grasped, and expressed in the shortest and most readily understood words. Men in the Making Are the expressions here italicized either perspicuous or graceful? The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. He does not mince matters at all, but puts every thing in a straightforward and, not seldom, homely way, perspicuous to the dullest understanding. Publisher's Advertising (1872) It is seldom indeed that we find history so written,—in a style at once vigorous, perspicuous, and picturesque. Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc His style was perspicuous, energetic, concise, and withal highly elegant. Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis The general style of this treatise is elegant and perspicuous; and the last book in particular has great variety and splendour of diction. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity Hallam calls it “the first example of good English—pure and perspicuous, well chosen, without vulgarisms, and without pedantry.” A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 The following table exhibits in a condensed and perspicuous form the operations of the Post-Office Department, from the foundation of the government. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Ogden’s Sermons, on Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten Commandments, &c. are the offspring of a clear and powerful intellect, expressed in language remarkably perspicuous and elegant. Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew We have a strong attachment to plain, perspicuous English. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 From the vagueness and uncertainty of meaning which characterises its separate words, to be perspicuous it must be full. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity Gray said himself that “the style he aimed at was extreme conciseness of expression, yet pure, perspicuous, and musical;” and this style, at which he aimed, he succeeded fully in achieving. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Though his subject is a very deep one, his style is so very unaffected and perspicuous that even the unscientific reader can peruse it with intelligence and profit. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. He resolved upon a simple and perspicuous style of discourse, such as the common mind could comprehend. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology As a poet, his style is perspicuous and simple; and his characteristics are tenderness, dignity, and grace. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century They are very copiously and clearly illustrated by neat and perspicuous engravings, which frequently do more than pages of description to give a distinct impression to the scholar’s mind. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 They call the house at Kulayn ‘the strong fortress,’ and close their eyes to the perspicuous truth. A Traveler’s Narrative Great is the blessedness of him who is stirred by the Breeze of God, and hath arisen from amongst the dead in this perspicuous Name.” The Promised Day Is Come So will our posterity admire our ignorance in as perspicuous matters. The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet This young female, not content with 'cavorting' around the country in a loose and perspicuous style, actually practises a gross swindle on the court. The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Indeed, a great many obscure texts in Paul may be made perspicuous by citations from the old Talmudists. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life So again: “Well it is with him who is adorned with the decoration of manners and morals: verily he is of those who help their Lord with clear perspicuous action.” A Traveler’s Narrative Not Voltaire himself is more perspicuous than Gibbon. Gibbon The catastrophe is not very perspicuous, but decidedly interesting. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter Every note, in short, is a model of legal analysis; and the style, also, is pure, simple, terse, and perspicuous. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 For the word "righteousness" in order to make the meaning more perspicuous we simply substitute "method of salvation," which is unquestionably its signification here. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The style of it is elegant, perspicuous, unaffected; the disposition and method are excellent; the judgments given by the writer acute and just. Dialogues of the Dead Lacrosse, perhaps the most perspicuous and fascinating of all games to the impartial spectator, is, of course, chiefly played in Canada, but there is a Lacrosse League in the Atlantic cities of the United States. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin At the same time, it is necessary to set proper bounds to this business, so as not to occasion obscurity and perplexity, when we mean to be simple and perspicuous. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. I chose these four epithets accurate, perspicuous, persuasive, appropriate, with some care, of course as my duty was; and will assume that by this time we are agreed to desire appropriateness. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 Such was the fact; and this gives a perspicuous meaning to the word without supposing it to imply a fiery prison house of anguish in the future world. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Subject not yourselves to excessive hardships, but follow the way We have made plain unto you through Our luminous verses and perspicuous proofs, and be not of the negligent. The Summons of the Lord of Hosts This, Augustine recommends as more faithful and perspicuous than the rest. Companion to the Bible An extensive science in a single book, and the most profound ideas expressed in the most perspicuous language. Life of Adam Smith Great is the blessedness of him who is stirred by the Breeze of God, and hath arisen from amongst the dead in this perspicuous Name. The Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh Their companion is not seized with madness: he is but a perspicuous warner. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side This, verily, is among the weightiest counsels I have vouchsafed unto you in the perspicuous Book, for whoso attacheth himself to either of these shall be prevented from attaining a proper understanding of Our Cause. The Summons of the Lord of Hosts At one time, rivers of mercy have streamed from His Pen, at another, through its movement, God’s perspicuous Book hath been revealed. Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh For otherwise, unto them that have recognized the Repositories of divine Revelation and beheld through His inspiration the mysteries of divine authority, all the verses of God are perspicuous and all His allusions are clear. Gems of Divine Mysteries In Mr. Spencer's perspicuous phrase, evolution in this aspect is a change from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, from the incoherent to the coherent, and from the indefinite to the definite condition. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science We may well suppose that the views of the multitude were still less correct and perspicuous. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution Unto this testify all created things and beyond them this perspicuous Book. The Summons of the Lord of Hosts Thus hath it been decreed by thy Lord, the All-Glorious, in this His perspicuous Tablet. Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf You are always perspicuous, and nothing but good can come of such conscientious work as yours. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Hence the so-called episcopal succession is most uncertain and confused at the very time when it should be sustained by evidence the most decisive and perspicuous. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution Anxious to facilitate the progress of her pupils, Mary spared no pains to make perspicuous what to them appeared obscure. Inez A Tale of the Alamo That perspicuous editor had instantly identified the style of the article with that of the "Eban" series, part of which he had read in typograph. Success A Novel Well nigh a hundred volumes of luminous verses and perspicuous words have already been sent down from the heaven of the will of Him Who is the Revealer of signs, and are available unto all. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf But what chiefly appeals to me in it is its extraordinary simplicity and perspicuous ease. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917 In order to render our details perspicuous and lucid, we will suppose— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 Thus we must admit that we have a ten-fold greater struggle than they to be perspicuous in language. Life in a Thousand Worlds His style is always forcible, and so perspicuous that he cannot be misunderstood. Notes on the Apocalypse The perspicuous and unanswerable exposition of Mr. Justice Catron, in the opinion delivered by him in the Dred Scott case, will remain through all time as an ample vindication of this assertion. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) It is the union of purity and propriety, which renders style graceful and perspicuous. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Juan was drawn thus into some attentions, Slight but select, and just enough to express, To females of perspicuous comprehensions, That he would rather make them more than less. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Neither indeed can that which immediately follows be perspicuous in the Latin. Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. Neither elegance of style, nor a perspicuous disposition, shall desert the man, by whom the subject matter is chosen judiciously. The Works of Horace And he was suffering now the deep melancholy of perspicuous youth, unable to part with its dreams but aware that its dreams are hopelessly divorced from reality. The Divine Fire The character of his argument was a perspicuous, easy, onward, accumulative, reasoning statement. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs The genius of Burke, like the one, was inexhaustible in resources, so composite and so averse from theory as to appear incongruous, but justified in the result; not formal, not always entirely perspicuous. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 It is full of matter, physical, statistical, political, commercial, &c.; but heavily written, and displaying rather extent and accuracy of research, than a perspicuous and profound mind. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson His Voyage is written in a style plain and homely, but is perspicuous and interesting. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature I am very very glad that you think me stronger and more perspicuous. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) The facts I have recorded with the greatest possible exactness and in perspicuous order in several works, and stated my deductions and views briefly in several treatises. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English Then Mr. Justice Fitzgerald proceeded to charge the jury, which he did in his own peculiarly calm, precise, and perspicuous style. The Wearing of the Green, or The Prosecuted Funeral Procession It then became further obvious to the perspicuous Helen that Mrs. Prockter must have heard of her stepson's singular adventure, and either resented Helen's share in it, or was ashamed of Emanuel's share in it. Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) The Nine Parts contain thirty-six Maps, all beautifully perspicuous. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 471, January 15, 1831 He thanked him also for the perspicuous, forcible, and masterly manner, in which he had treated it. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) Volume II But no; it is always the same succession of perspicuous and vigorous sentences, all carrying flavors of important truth, and none utterly true. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 As a writer he was perspicuous, vigorous, and straightforward. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 The philosophical works of Sir Humphry Davy are written in a clear and perspicuous style, by which means he has contributed more to the diffusion of scientific knowledge than any other writer of his time. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13 — Index to Volume 13 To transcribe them into the margin was unnecessary, because the original is easily examined, and they are seldom less perspicuous in the poet than in the historian. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Of these forms, we should adopt that which will render the sentence the most perspicuous and agreeable; and, by the use of both, avoid an unpleasant repetition of either. The Grammar of English Grammars His manner of telling a story, or explaining his thoughts, was forcible, perspicuous, and original: his style in conversation had an uncommon zest. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are The prince's lodgings are described as a "freestone building, three stories high, with fourteen turrets covered with lead," being "a very graceful ornament to the whole house, and perspicuous to the county round about." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828 The perspicuous reader will not need to be told that the young man was in love with Tony Holiday—desperately in love. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Not mistaken at all," replied Mr. Sidney; "the immorality of the signature is the most perspicuous, and it is more than an even chance that he has graduated from a State's prison. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Again, the elliptical sentence, "Teach them thy sons," is less perspicuous, and therefore less accurate, than the full expression, "Teach them to thy sons." The Grammar of English Grammars One of the most perspicuous and forceful presentations of these modern conclusions of anthropology is found in the volume above quoted, a book which owes its origin to a Boston scholar. The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays The tract in which he at length announced his views, was a most modest one,—but simple, perspicuous, and conclusive. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance One in a hundred perhaps, perhaps in a still less proportion, will reply in a laudable manner, and convey his ideas in perspicuous and spirited language. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author His sayings are terse yet elegant, simple yet profound, perspicuous and eminently practical. The Art of War His wit was prompt and flowing, yet solid and piercing; his taste delicate, his head clear, and his way of expressing his thoughts perspicuous and engaging. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 My chief aim was to be clear and perspicuous: if I have succeeded in that, it is all I pretend to. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. His plain and perspicuous style is often elegant. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 With Professor Delamater it was the ability to give prolonged, profound and perspicuous lectures. Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men In the far south, among the Araucanians of Chili, and their relatives the migratory hordes of the Pampas, no gift is in higher estimation than that of an easy and perspicuous delivery. Aboriginal American Authors To the minute selection of characteristical circumstances, for which the ancients were remarkable, he added a philosophical research, and the most perspicuous and energetick language. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 He combined scholastic accuracy with unaffected ease; condensed and pointed, yet rich and perspicuous. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey The language is excellent—idiomatic, simple, perspicuous, at once significant and lively, that is, expressive of the thought, and also of a manly proportion of feeling appropriate to it. Literary Remains, Volume 2 With such a style, perspicuous, easy and impressive, it is easy to see how he might thoroughly absorb the attention of an audience, without affecting the orator. Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Let us quote Gray once more, for he had an unerring sense of the difficulty of moulding ideas into "pure, perspicuous and musical form." A Study of Poetry Anglo-Saxon prose was remarkable for its straightforward and perspicuous simplicity, and, especially after the time of Alfred, it had a marked preference over the Latin. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities "Then you would be 'perspicuous au grautin,' as the fellow said," chuckled Bobby. The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause The Liberals of Upper Canada are ably led by Mr. George Brown, who excels in a highly lucid, powerful, and perspicuous course of reasoning, which cannot fail to produce an effect. The Englishwoman in America These are the signs of the book, and of the perspicuous Koran. The Koran (Al-Qur'an) Extreme conciseness of expression, yet pure, perspicuous, and musical, is one of the grand beauties of lyric poetry. A Study of Poetry This language has the inestimable and rather unusual merit of being perspicuous. Old Calabria These materials were mythology, and, consequently, a fiction, which, under the handling of preceding poets, had collected into continuous and perspicuous masses, what in reality was detached and scattered about in various ways. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Customs are depicted from which one may learn of the formality and regard for precedents which is a perspicuous trait of oriental character. Malayan Literature The tongue of the person unto whom they incline is a foreign tongue; but this, wherein the Koran is written, is the perspicuous Arabic tongue. The Koran (Al-Qur'an) Now the first circumstance that strikes us in this affair is, why the crime was not expressed in more perspicuous and appropriate language? Lives of the Necromancers There is a quite legitimate pleasure to be found, no doubt, in a complex intrigue which is also perspicuous. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship Bunyan he admired for his genius and perspicuous style rather than for his sentiments. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam He thanked him also for the perspicuous, forcible, and masterly manner in which he had treated it. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) BY the perspicuous book; verily we have ordained the same an Arabic Koran that ye may understand: and it is certainly written in the original book, kept with us, being sublime and full of wisdom. The Koran (Al-Qur'an) It is, by the very tenor of the subject, interspersed with a thousand minute and elaborate investigations, which, in spite of perspicuous method, and classical allusion, will deter the idle, and affright the gay. Four Early Pamphlets We have not a copy of that work at hand, and cannot quote the epitaph, nor would we, though we could, since even the dog-Latin is too plain and perspicuous for many readers. The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations, by the Rev. George Gilfillan Hence the reason is perspicuous, why no French plays, when translated, have, or ever can succeed upon the English Stage. An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments If he had told me of this most perspicuous of theories, I would have aided him with all the wealth of my genius. The Lost Naval Papers This book is no other than an admonition from God, and a perspicuous Koran; 70 that he may warn him who is living: and the sentence of condemnation will be justly executed on the unbelievers. The Koran (Al-Qur'an) Rough, negligent and perspicuous, it presents us occasionally with the boldest figures and the most animated language. Four Early Pamphlets There are several varieties of this disease; it will be more perspicuous, however, for our purpose to speak of it under the two following forms:— Mild scarlet fever; Scarlet fever, with sore throat. The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease He was always most perfectly clear and perspicuous; and his language was so accurate, and his sentences so neatly constructed, that his conversation might have been all printed without any correction. Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 To this objection I shall make a just and perspicuous reply. Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato The whole is written in the perspicuous book of his decrees. The Koran (Al-Qur'an) Shelley no doubt wanted a rhyme for 'morrow' and 'sorrow': he has made use of 'borrow' in a compact but not perspicuous phrase. Adonais His manner of narration, though prolix, is perspicuous, and may compare favorably with that of contemporary writers. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 His style, indeed, will not bear a comparison with the great masters of Greek literature: he is not eloquent, like Thucydides; nor practical, like Herodotus; nor perspicuous and elegant, like Xenophon. Mosaics of Grecian History The activity of the imagination is so organized in a permanent and perspicuous form that we not only live it, but possess it as an object. The Principles of Aesthetics These are the signs of the perspicuous book; which we have sent down in the Arabic tongue, that, peradventure, ye might understand. The Koran (Al-Qur'an) It is enough, if a work be perspicuous to those for whom it is written, and "Fit audience find, though few." Biographia Literaria They have the merit of exhibiting, in a simple, perspicuous form, those events, which, lying on the surface, may be found more or less expanded in moat general histories. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 But the written record must go through from beginning to end, self-accusing, thoroughly perspicuous, with no sweet, soft falsehoods hidden under the half-expressed truth. The Way We Live Now When, however, the building is perspicuous all round, it should, like a statue, present a beautiful view from every standpoint. The Principles of Aesthetics The former comprehends the more obscure, parabolical, and enigmatical passages, and such as are repealed or abrogated; the latter those which are plain, perspicuous, liable to no doubt, and in full force. The Koran (Al-Qur'an) This memorable brochure exhibits, without pedantry, perspicuous arrangement and the "geometrical" precision on which Fontenelle remarked as one of the notes of the new epoch introduced by Descartes. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth He spoke Latin barbarously; none the less was his language direct and perspicuous. Veranilda There was nothing deep in his style of narrative and criticism, and here depth was not wanted; sufficient that he was perspicuous and energetic. Thyrza The second source of satisfaction in rhythm is the combination of feelings of balance and harmony aroused—a rhythm is not only a pleasing perspicuous order, but an emotion. The Principles of Aesthetics In the performance of his task, he displays a thorough acquaintance with his subject; and his style, though not polished into elegance, is neat and perspicuous. The Koran (Al-Qur'an) But there was something in her face that haunted him—a wistful, appealing delicacy, which yet was associated with an instant readiness of intellect, with a perspicuous judgment and a gift of organization. The Judgment House I see not where he could have insisted less, and to have made the humours perspicuous enough. Every Man out of His Humour Then Tifto told his story, sullenly, doggedly, but still in a perspicuous manner, and with words which admitted of no doubt. The Duke's Children It is not because, in literature, men are happier and nobler that life seems superior there; but because its outlines are sharper, its design more perspicuous, the motives that sway it better understood. The Principles of Aesthetics This is the "perspicuous Book" of the Koran, chaps. vi. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 We have then a paraphrase, full and generally perspicuous. The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 All the better, I am glad on't; for the issue was very perspicuous. Every Man out of His Humour That the world is very resplendent is made perspicuous from the figure, the color, the magnitude of it, and likewise from the wonderful variety of those stars which adorn this world. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies His compositions may be easily translated, because they are vastly clear and perspicuous; besides, most of his subjects are general, and relative to all nations. Letters on England His narrative is very perspicuous, and is also entitled to the praise, seldom, we grieve to say, deserved by modern writers, of being very concise. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 His speaking was of that kind which has, in every age, been held in the highest estimation by English Parliaments, ready, weighty, perspicuous, condensed. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 Those skirmishes on which Clarendon dwells so minutely would be told, as Thucydides would have told them, with perspicuous conciseness. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 And by mirrors it is made perspicuous that, when the sun is eclipsed, the moon is in a direct line below it. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies His style would never have been elegant; but it might at least have been manly and perspicuous; and nothing but the most elaborate care could possibly have made it so bad as it is. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 The lower range is not so immediately perspicuous. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 He was terse and perspicuous in his sentences, practical in his advice, and, above all things, true in what he said to his audience of themselves. North America — Volume 1 His history is sometimes as concise as a chronological chart; yet it is always perspicuous. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 The third manner of our seeing is by refraction, and this is perspicuous in mirrors. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies The natural and perspicuous expression which spontaneously rises to the mind will often refuse to accommodate itself to such a form. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 The tendency of modern languages is to become more correct as well as more perspicuous than ancient. Charmides For a mind so perspicuous as that of d'Artagnan, this indulgence was a light by which he caught a glimpse of a better future. The Three Musketeers |
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