 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 470 pàgines
...might read in Hooker) is like an arrow shot from a longbow ; the force of it depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. Argument is like an arrow...crossbow, which has equal force, though shot by a child. Reviewers, writing anonymously, are, to all intents and purposes, crossbow men. But it hurts our feelings... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 pàgines
...it. Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long-bow, the force of which depends on the strength of the hand that draws it ; argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has great force, though shot by a child. He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pàgines
...benevolence." TESTIMONY is like an arrow shot from a long bow ; the force of it depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has an equal force though shot by a child. — Boyle, 737. WILLIAM LAW wrote the best piece of parenetic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 pàgines
...ARGUMENT. Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow ; the force of it depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. Argument is like an arrow...cross-bow, which has equal force though shot by a child. EPITAPH WRITING. The writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 508 pàgines
...stop the mouth. Empty reproofs will soon open wider the mouth of those that are reproved. — Gurnall. Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force when shot by a child or a man. — Bacon. man by the name of Rawson, who subsequently settled in the... | |
 | Treasury - 1868 - 148 pàgines
...ARGUMENT. Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow, the force of it depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force though drawn by a child. Boyle. A COCKNEY. I meet with a double sense of this word " Cockney," some taking... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1871 - 412 pàgines
...vii. 10. " Testimony is like an arrow shot from a longbow ; the force of it depends on the Btrength of the hand that draws it Argument is like an arrow from...which has equal force though shot by a child."— Lord Bacon, с Homilist. "In the discovery of truth, in the development of man's mental p ow ers and... | |
 | 1872 - 692 pàgines
...leap out of the boat. Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow — the force of it depends on the hand that draws it. Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has great force, though shot by a child. Bacon. ' HE Chinese language is like no other on the globe. It... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 192 pàgines
...subject ; testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow ; the force of it depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. Argument is like an arrow...put into his hands her beautiful " Ode on the Peace ;" b Johnson read it over, and when this amiable, elegant, and accomplished young lady was presented... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 482 pàgines
...subject : Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow ; the force of it depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. , Argument is like an arrow...cross-bow, which has equal force though shot by a child." Our next is not a conversation, only three simple words — simple but full of character. A clergyman... | |
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Bacon upon this subject ; testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow ; the force of it depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force though shot by a child. 
