Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. From LearnThat.org. [Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)]
One quality of it is its clearness, its perspicuity. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
Box's strawberry in the farce, and with as much perspicuity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
The proper placing of words depends upon perspicuity and precision. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
The combined vigor, ease, and perspicuity of the writing is unusual. From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
For the greater evidence and perspicuity hereof, take this proposition. From Wordnik.com. [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference
The politeness and perspicuity of your letter equally claim my earliest exertion. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
All of them will be expressed in terms of extension, for the sake of perspicuity. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
To proceed with order and perspicuity, we will go up the Missisippi from its mouth. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
Our style muft be pure, and correct; -- we must speak with clearness and perspicuity. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
The speech was delivered with the greatest ease, and was perspicuity itself throughout. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Old Man] Reference
They spoke with remarkable simplicity, perspicuity and accuracy of English pronunciation. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 05, May, 1889] Reference
Brougham; and in perspicuity and popular interest, this treatise is unrivalled in our times. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 17, No. 496, June 27, 1831] Reference
Time showed that he granted a perspicuity and energy to the members of his council which Iyeyasu alone possessed. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
This style, so forceful in its perspicuity, was effectively simple, yet rich in the variety of its classical structure. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Icelandic Short Stories] Reference
The following passage, in which the object of the work is enounced by the author, is wanting in precision and perspicuity. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
You may, perhaps, find in it some over-crude tones, some raw shades; but do not forbear to exercise your critical perspicuity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
As a poet, Pringle is chiefly remarkable for elegance of versification, perspicuity of sentiment, and deep and generous feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
With eminent modesty and moderation his sentences were wrought, but with a perspicuity and clearness which no one could mistake. From Wordnik.com. [Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties] Reference
The parable shows, with great perspicuity and certainty, both the extent and the limits of this withdrawal from human cognizance and help. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
Ricardo is a 'model of perspicuity,' we suspect that few will agree with him, as his thought is always subtile and sometimes perplexed; but De. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
"We have perused this history with much interest, delighted with the ease and perspicuity of style, and with the clearness and force of the narrative.". From Wordnik.com. [The World's Fair] Reference
For clearness of head, for truth-telling simplicity and honesty of purpose, and for perspicuity and liveliness of style, Franklin has, perhaps, no superior. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
The composition of elements in a picture does not correspond to any actual arrangement of elements in a landscape, but to the demands of visual perspicuity. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
This particular landlord, though he looks like one of the old school, should be congratulated on a perspicuity which few of his confreres in England possess. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
The work is also remarkable for the conciseness and perspicuity of its style, the clearness of its descriptions, and the admirable arrangement of its matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
The late proclamation of Lord Ellenborough has been so frequently referred to in the foregoing pages, that for the sake of perspicuity we subjoin it in full. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
The Sophists pointed out with merciless perspicuity the welter, the confusion, the essential irrationality of current social and religious traditions and beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Take the history of French republicanism, of Quietism, of court and literary circles; what perspicuity in the expression, and vagueness in the realization of ideas!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
The first has the advantage of the perspicuity which comes from simplicity, similar for our purposes to the value of the rudimentary forms of life for the biologist. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
The Constitution has always been remarkable for the felicity of its arrangement of different subjects, and the perspicuity and appropriateness of the language it uses. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
F.Garnier. admires Theodoret's brevity, joined with great perspicuity, especially in his commentaries, and commends the pleasing beauty and attic elegance of his style. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
"That's true!" returned Firmin Bonaffé, who opened his eyes wide, as if he wished to follow this chain of reasoning, which evidently astonished him by its perspicuity. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
But while thus providing more especially for the wants of the classical student, he has not been unmindful of the neatness and perspicuity required to satisfy the English reader. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
It was especially in cases where the original lacked smoothness and perspicuity, the qualities which appealed most strongly to the century, that the claim to improvement was made. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
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