Penmanship was almost a fine art in colonial days, the one indispensable accomplishment of a school teacher; and he was often hired to exercise it in writing a name "perspicuously" in a book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference

Miss Corner writes concisely, perspicuously, and sensibly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Fair] Reference

The recent improvements have been perspicuously stated by Mr. Herapath, of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829] Reference

He read to me part of a tale never put into the ordinary edition, translated into English tersely and perspicuously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath] Reference

June 20, 2006, 7: 24 pm first cash advance says: first cash advance perspicuously: turrets revered stealthily? drifted! blasphemes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » AND THE SAME INITIALS:] Reference

The distinction between analog and digital representations has (for our purposes) been most perspicuously put by Fred Dretske (Dretske 1981, Ch. 6).    From Wordnik.com.  [Nonconceptual Mental Content] Reference

Thus plainly and perspicuously is this great matter, as it is the object of our faith, as it is proposed unto us to be believed, declared and expressed unto us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumatologia] Reference

‘“I write,”’ his mother went on, reading very perspicuously and precisely, ‘“from the chair, to which I shall probably be confined for some hours.”’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference

October 18th, 2008 at 3: 02 pm property and liability insurance ins 21 says: property and liability insurance ins 21 … sinks secures: perspicuously, Pakistan food ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Iraqi Leaders Call On U.S. To Set Timetable] Reference

The artists 'arcanum;: Or, The essence of a variety of useful and entertaining arts, carefully and perspicuously laid down; the greater part from actual experiments by F.    From Wordnik.com.  [120th Tournament of Roses Parade: An Intimate Photographic Essay] Reference

According to Frege, such ambiguities provide further evidence that natural language is not suited to the task of representing propositions and inferential relations perspicuously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Logical Form] Reference

More perspicuously than any other author, John Fiske has introduced to modern English thought the conception of the ascent of the soul, considered in its relation to the individual and to the race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference

Thirdly, if in any statement there be anything doubtful or questionable, I would by no means have it suppressed or passed in silence, but plainly and perspicuously set down by way of note or admonition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preparative toward a Natural and Experimental History] Reference

Book about it, in which he design'd to give an account of the whole matter, and describe the condition of those who were so happy as to attain it clearly and perspicuously; but we may answer him with the Old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan] Reference

The limits of the essay are at best cramped, and the compression, the adjusting of the subject to those limits, so that its character and bearings may be naturally and perspicuously exhibited, imply no ordinary skill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

In effect, the first of these questions asks whether Skolem's Paradox is simply an artifact of our abbreviations, an artifact which would disappear if Skolem's Paradox were formulated more carefully and perspicuously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skolem's Paradox] Reference

I will, and as briefly and perspicuously as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance] Reference

Briefly and perspicuously, if you please: and thus we begin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance] Reference

But the difference, perspicuously expressed, is most familiar and sensible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Advancement of Learning] Reference

The words of our text call upon us to unfold this thought more perspicuously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Pulpit, Being a Selection of Sermons by the Most Eminent Modern Divines of Germany.] Reference

It deals perspicuously with the reasons assigned in the despatch of M. Drouyn de Lhuys.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Proposed Mediation in America] Reference

A perspicuously arranged compilation of the fragments that have been preserved is given by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

This memoir is very ably and perspicuously written, and throws some curious EARL OF LONSDALE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference

(2s) (In German) ˜Schnee ist weiss™ means snow is white. can be more perspicuously expressed by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilfrid Sellars] Reference

Does it not follow that by drilling ourselves to write perspicuously we train our minds to clarify their thought?.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. The Practice of Writing] Reference

’ Here she ended, and her face, suddenly overrun by a lovely scarlet, perspicuously denoted the feeling and bashfulness of her soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fourth Book. II. Which Treats of the Discretion of the Beautiful Dorothea, and the Artificial Manner Used to Dissuade the Amorous Knight from Continuing His Penance; and How He Was Gotten Away; with Many Other Delightful and Pleasant Occurrences] Reference

In this volume it has been our object to trace perspicuously the path which Russia has trod from earliest infancy to the present hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Empire of Russia] Reference

'"I write,"' his mother went on, reading very perspicuously and precisely, '"from the chair, to which I shall probably be confined for some hours."'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference

"" I write, "" his mother went on, reading very perspicuously and precisely, "" from the chair, to which I shall probably be confined for some hours. "".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference

To this it must be added that, though he is able to explain himself perspicuously, yet he is not master of the graces of speech, nor even perhaps of the niceties of grammar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference

There Olaf issued out from the hills one morning: drew himself up according to the best rules of Norse tactics, rules of little complexity, but perspicuously true to the facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Kings of Norway] Reference

It consists in seeing how things hang together perspicuously and how the later phases of any process fill out -- as in good music -- the tendency and promise of what went before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Reason] Reference

I saw several reviews of it, and I was amused to find that the critics perspicuously conjectured that because it was written in the first person it was probably autobiographical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Isle] Reference

Or, as Robert Paul Wolff somewhat more perspicuously puts it: “Obedience is not a matter of doing what someone tells you to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legal Obligation and Authority] Reference

In which the immoderate, irregular, and unseasonable use thereof is reprehended, and the true nature and best manner of using it, perspicuously demonstrated. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Social History of Smoking] Reference