It comes from the false idea which the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries formed of the dramatic style, or, to speak more {592} exactly, of the entire dramatic art.
Having devoted so much space to the building, we can only allude generally to the contents of its galleries, of which we propose to speak more at length in a future notice.
It is impossible, said Pantagruel to Panurge, to speak more to the purpose than does this true priestess; you may remember I told you as much when you first spoke to me about it.
If he see aught in you that makes him like, That anything he sees which moves his liking I can with ease translate it to my will; Or if you will, to speak more properly, I will enforce it eas'ly to my love.
For my part, he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more properly, stays me here at home unkept; for call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth that differs not from the stalling of an ox?
But mark me: To be received plain, I'll speak more gross- Your brother is to die.
Chance, as an unbeliever would say, or Providence, to speak more correctly, led him to the house of a poor woman quite worthy of his interest.
To say what Protestantism understands by the inspiration of the Scriptures would be difficult, or, to speak more correctly, impossible.
But I pass this now, intending to speak more to the same question afterwards.
His pain and poverty make him speak more in a spirit of lamentation than the other, and he shall be pitied sooner than the other, by all those that have the least dram of natural affection or pity.
As a general rule, men are not satisfied with what is good; they want the best, or, to speak more to the point, the most.
However, as the other guests were at no great distance, she begged me to speak more softly, but they heard me and I was very glad of it.
Mirth had the mastery over reason, or, to speak more plainly, we were all drunk; and if it had not been for the fatal grill, I could have had the whole eleven ladies without much trouble.
Speak more plainly to me," said Travers, who felt a double interest in a conversation which every moment contained an allusion that bore upon his own fortune.
Of the evidence of these supposed innate maxims, I have spoken already: of their usefulness I shall have occasion to speak more hereafter.
But having occasion to speak more at large of these in another place, I here only enumerate them.
But of their small use for the improvement of knowledge I shall have occasion tospeak more at large, l.
But they seem to speak more probably, who tell us that Philip advanced Eumenes for the friendship he bore to his father, whose guest he had sometime been.
To speak more specifically, the native country of the English language is Germany; and the Germanic languages are those that are the most closely connected with our own.
The b makes no part of the original word, but has been inserted for the sake of euphony; or, to speak more properly, by a euphonic process.
Or, to speak more seriously, and to come, at last, to the point.
The passions which agitate the Americans most deeply, are not their political, but their commercial passions; or, to speak more correctly, they introduce the habits they contract in business into their political life.
If a democracy is unable to conceive the pleasures of the rich, or to see them without envy, an aristocracy is slow to understand, or, to speak more correctly, is unacquainted with the privations of the poor.
After the idea of virtue, I am acquainted with no higher principle than that of right; or, to speak more accurately, these two ideas are commingled in one.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speak more" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
