Yet Spizelius is not to be contemned because he is verbose and heavy; he has reflected more deeply than Valerianus, by opening the moral causes of those calamities which he describes.
The verbose tasteless Frenchman seems to lay it down as a principle that every life must be a book, and what is worse, it proves a book without a life; for what do we know of Boileau, after all his tedious stuff?
There was talking at these meetings, it is true, but the term business can scarcely be applied to the verbose and unmeaning speeches in which the orators indulged.
This brief affair was stated by Sir Robert in a veryverbose speech, in which he showed a desire to conciliate all parties, and an apprehension that he would fail to conciliate any.
It is supposed to be administered in sections, sandwiched in between the verbose and long-winded effusions of "Emperor" Simmons as contained in the ritual.
He has issued a long-winded, verbose statement since that time rehashing the same platitudes that have characterized all his writings and speeches, but has not turned over to the authorities the names of his local members.
There is more walking around, more verbose tommyrot, and then the remainder of the oath is administered, and the candidate is ready for "naturalization.
Epiphanius; and his narrative, verbose and turgid as it must appear, illustrates some curious passages in the fall of the Western empire.
Few facts, and few sentiments, can be extracted from his verbose correspondence.
But Cicero, rather than Apuleius, was Augustine's ideal; that verbose and sonorous eloquence captivated him, as it did the early scholars when learning revived.
If you have to listen to a sermon, it will not be a long one; and if you be a Protestant, it will strike you as verbose in style and un-English in tone.
But it may be said, in their defence, that the method of verbosecomposition was not without some appearance of utility.
Here the purport is given instead of the literal version of the too verbose tetrastich verse).
The gloss is too verbosein the explanation of this passage).
Simplicity and brevity have been aimed at, the main idea being that whatever is bulky or verbose is a hindrance rather than a help when one is engaged in the observation of the heavens.
Simplicity and brevity have been aimed at, the main idea being that whatever is bulky or verbose is a hindrance rather than a help when actually engaged in the observation of the heavens.
Why should he be so ardent in desiring grave and verbose writers?
In conclusion, he passes to political authority, deriving it from the same principle, and comments with severity and success, though in the verbose style usual to him, on the system of Hobbes.
The latter is lessverbose and more temperate than the former, and may be recommended, as a fair and useful production, to the general reader.
And this is more striking to those who have toiled at the verbose books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, where tedious quotations, accumulated, not selected, disguise the argument they are meant to confirm.
He set down Seward as writing too much; Sumner as a pompous, verbose talker; Burnside as a swaggering West Pointer, and Hooker as a casual hero.
They could no longer be deceived by the verbose platitudes of politicians about foreign intervention or strategic purposes, and they saw the stars and stripes approaching on every hand.
Moses and Aristotle are the chief objects of his verbose commentaries, one of which is dated as early as May 10th, A.
A loose andverbose manner never fails to create disgust.
They are written in a diffuse and verbose style, but are generally clear in sense, and often very luxuriant in description.
