10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONCINNITIES»
Discover the use of
concinnities in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
concinnities and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Six Books of Proclus: On the Theology of Plato, Trans. from ...
... archetypal ratios, geometrical concinnities, and harmonic proportions, show
such a force of genius as is not to be found in any of the writers of physical
astronomy before him. So that Jeremiah Horrox, a very competent judge of these
matters, ...
2
A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle: In Four Books ...
... appears to have had a conception of this great truth ; but as 6 Dr. Gregory, in
the 70th proposition of the first book of his Elements of Astronomy, says of Kepler,
" That his archetypal ratios, geometrical concinnities, and harmonic proportions, ...
3
Correspondence of scientific men of the seventeenth century, ...
... Brounker (to whom I pray present my most humble service) whether there be
any thing in it, but conjectures and concinnities, &c. viz. whether a small vessel (I
do not say a great one which the eye cannot comprehend all at one view) may
not ...
Correspondence, Stephen Jordan Rigaud (bp. of Antigua), 1841
... and which, having pilloried indiscriminately the decorous Wordsworth and the
licentious Byron, Hazlitt living too much in the senses and Shelley too much out
of them, the grand simplicities of Keats and the sweet concinnities of Leigh Hunt,
...
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1869
5
Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Literature
For this is a different kind of writing from my earlier style, without showiness,
without luxuriance, without the Tullian concinnities; condensed everywhere, and I
know not whether of too studied a brevity. But this is what captivates me now.
6
Lord Bacon's Essays, Or, Counsels, Moral and Civil
IT is a thing more Politick than a Man would imagine, ea* sily to pass from Jest to
Earnest, and from Earnest to Jest. :A Jest is many times a Vehicle of Truth, which
otherwise would not arrive. Concinnities, what Man would not de- - spise?
Francis Bacon, William Rawley, 1742
... and which, having pilloried indiscriminately the decorous Wordsworth and the
licentious Byron, Hazlitt living too much in the senses and Shelley too much out
of them, the grand simplicitics of Keats and the sweet concinnities of Leigh Hunt,
...
8
Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the ...
The first word of the title is meant in its Greek etymological sense, for which a
better English equivalent would have been the Latinare "concords" or, better yet,
"concinnities." 59-'ScICorrIII:8j. 60. Rfpue contrmporaine, i February 1923, 257; ...
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Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century, ...
... common way of building, viz. the way of draughts and models, and I desire you
to ask Lord Brounker (to whom I pray present my most humble service) whether
there be any thing in it, but conjectures and concinnities, 8w. viz. whether a small
...
Stephen Jordan Rigaud, Isaac Barrow, John Flamsteed, 1841
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Correspondence of scientific men of the seventeenth century: ...
... Brounker (to whom I pray present my most humble service) whether there be
any thing in it, but conjectures and concinnities, &c. viz. whether a small vessel (I
do not say a great one which the eye cannot comprehend all at one view) may
not ...
Stephen Peter Rigaud, Stephen Jordan Rigaud (bp.), Isaac Barrow, 1841
