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.
McColl is sensible and perspicuousin all his editorial utterances.
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.
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.
If the suspicious Latins should require some pledge, some previous effect of the sincerity of the Greeks, the answers of Barlaam were perspicuous and rational.
His narrative is perspicuous and where he can be free from a religious bias, the judgment of Spondanus is not contemptible.
If you are obscure to yourself, you must have great good Luck indeed, if you are perspicuous to others.
The third manner of our seeing is by refraction, and this is perspicuous in mirrors.
And by mirrors it is made perspicuous that, when the sun is eclipsed, the moon is in a direct line below it.
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.
Truly, but our perspicuous Book telleth us that what Allah hath hidden man should not seek," he answered, piously.
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.
It is requisite that the Language of an Heroic Poem should be both Perspicuous and Sublime.
The excellence of Diction consists in beingperspicuous without being mean.
It was perspicuous and comprehensive; but I am confident that its true merit, and that which gained me the general confidence, was its being founded in strict justice, without the slightest regard to party feelings or popular prejudices.
It was from Duroc, and was much more perspicuous than polite.
Those skirmishes on which Clarendon dwells so minutely would be told, as Thucydides would have told them, with perspicuous conciseness.
A profound mathematician, Cauchy exercised by his perspicuous and rigorous methods a great influence over his contemporaries and successors.
This is not quite so perspicuous and single-sensed as Archbishop Leighton's sentences in general are.
It is the most systematic and perspicuousof his rhetorical works, but seems to be but the rough draught of what he originally intended.
From the vagueness and uncertainty of meaning which characterises its separate words, to be perspicuous it must be full.
Yet there is an increasing expertness and fluency, and the language insensibly rejecting obsolete forms, the manner of our writers is less uncouth, and their sense more pointed and perspicuous than before.
The language is also more plain and perspicuous than we ever find in him, especially on a subject so full of passion.
M’Crie has said with his usual perspicuous brevity.
The style is flowing, and, in general, more perspicuous than the Elizabethan poets are wont to be.
Thou art the One, O my God, Who hath promised in Thy perspicuous utterances to remember them in Thy Book as a recompense for their works in Thy days.
Woe betide thee, O thou who hast joined partners with God, and woe betide them that have taken thee as their leader, without a clear token or a perspicuous Book.
Day and night I fix My gaze on theseperspicuous words, and recite: "O God, my God!
Thus have We set down Our decree in a perspicuous Tablet.
Among others, these perspicuous verses have, in answer to certain individuals, been sent down from the Kingdom of Divine knowledge: "O thou who hast set thy face towards the splendors of My Countenance!
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.
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.
Perspicuous signs have appeared on every side, and yet men are, for the most part, deprived of the privilege of beholding and of comprehending them.
He is, however, far more intelligible than Fletcher; his text has not given so much embarrassment from corruption, and his general style is as perspicuous as we ever find it in the dramatic poets of that age.
I do not myself think the language of Hobbes either here, or as quoted by Stewart from his Latin treatise on Logic, so perspicuous as usual.
It rests on definitions and axioms, from which the propositions are derived in close, brief, and usually perspicuous demonstrations.
Cowley’s prose, very unlike his verse, as Johnson has observed, is perspicuous and unaffected.
When you are demonstrating, what you have first to attend to is, the completeness of the form of syllogizing: when you are defining, the main requisite is to be perspicuous and intelligible; i.
Mr. Justice Le Blanc summed up the evidence in a very clear and perspicuous manner, and the jury having retired for about a quarter of an hour, returned with a verdict of Guilty against both the prisoners.
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.
