Fourth, it contains much plainness in regard to points of doctrine, insomuch that all may understand, and see eye to eye, if they take pains to read it.
From which it appears that Enoch knew and prophesied concerning the Messiah, with all the plainness of an Apostle.
He informed me with plainnessof speech who and what they were--convicts taken from the prisons, branded in the hand, and sentenced to transportation.
We have here a sentence which I am certain many a writer would, in secret, prefer to the masterly plainness of Genesis.
They were unquestionably disinterested; and they were made with a plainness rather prepossessing to one who had so lately experienced the hollowness of more flowery profession.
The youngest is delightfully beautiful and sweet--and the elder delightfully sweet and plain--with a plainness qui vaut bien des beautes.
I am tired of their plainness and stiffness and tastelessness--their dowdy beads and their lindsey woolsey trains.
Rejecting ornament, not often seeking far for illustration, his power consisted in the plainness of his propositions, in the closeness of his logic, and in the earnestness and energy of his manner.
Side-note: He copied the manner of life of Sokrates, in plainness and rigour.
He copied the manner of life of Sokrates, in plainness and rigour 150 Doctrines of Antisthenes exclusively ethical and ascetic.
Readily entering the same tone, with similar plainness of truth I answered, No, I will not be sorry you go, though miss you at Cheltenham I certainly must.
As you profess to be a holiness teacher," said they, "you ought to be an example in plainnessof dress.
Plainness and simplicity marked his language and the plan of his sermons, while they were full of evangelical truth, setting forth experimental and practical piety.
You cannot but know with what discreet zeal, with what plainness and fidelity, he published the grace of God in the ever-blessed and glorious Redeemer.
It was one of the things to be expected by a man with a crooked nose and the plainness of his other features in conformity with that one, even if he had not happened to be there incognito.
At a quadrille he was not amiss if one could get over the crook in his nose and the rugged plainnessof his countenance generally.
And thus he continued as before in his first plainness and honesty, well beloved of all save the kitchin drudge; I come now to tell you what became of his adventure.
These kind of knaves I know which in this plainness Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends Than twenty silly-ducking observants That stretch their duties nicely.
To plainness honour's bound When majesty falls to folly.
Mr. Cayley's one main ground of superiority to previous translators lies in the true perception that nothing but plain and bold language in the copy can represent the bold plainness of the original.
What perhaps struck Miss Tallowax most at the first moment was the plainness of the ladies' dresses.
The plainness of the table at Manor Cross had surprised Mary, after the comparative luxury of the deanery.
In his desire to accept all facts loyally and simply, it fell within his programme to speak at some length and with some plainness on what is, for I really do not know what reason, the most delicate of subjects.
He speaks in one place of "plainness and vigour, the ornaments of style," which is rather too paradoxical to be comprehensively true.
