 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1861 - 496 стор.
...addressed a public small and highly cultivated. French literature was young; the highest posts were vacant; it was comparatively easy to be distinguished. Extravagance...vehicle of thought ; first of all to be perspicuous, next to be concise, was all that they aimed at. " In the eighteenth century competition had begun.... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 стор.
...a public small and highly cultivated. French literature was young ; the highest posts were vacant ; it was comparatively easy to be distinguished. Extravagance...vehicle of thought ; first of all to be perspicuous, next to be concise, was all that they aimed at. " In the eighteenth century competition had begun.... | |
 | F. R. Ankersmit - 1996 - 444 стор.
...their readers. They were therefore not seduced to achieve a (con)fusion of viewpoints: "Style was then the mere vehicle of thought. First of all to be perspicuous,...being perspicuous, to be concise was all they aimed at."6 This was enough — and it was feasible. Democracy fuses the different segments of society into... | |
 | Hugh Brogan, Denis Hugh Vercingetorix Brogan - 2007 - 756 стор.
...addressed a public small & highly cultivated. French literature was young, the highest posts were vacant: it was comparatively easy to be distinguished. Extravagance...vehicle of thought. First of all to be perspicuous, &, being perspicuous, to be concise, was all that they aimed at.'45 Such was Tocqueville 's declaration... | |
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In the 18th century competition had begun: it had become difficult to be original by matter, so men tried to strike by style; to clearness and brevity, ornament was added — soberly and in good taste, but yet it betrayed labor and effort. 