"Prolixity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... two brothers, the accountant Francisco Beltran de Manurga and the inspector Matias Beltran de Manurga. Either of them is, in my opinion, a person as capable as is necessary for the said offices, as well as for things of more importance. I entreat your Majesty to pardon my prolixity in matters in which you have not asked my advice; for my zeal and desire for your royal service, and also for some one who may aid me therein, obliges me ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVIII, 1617-1620 • Various
... Prolixity characterised these solemn utterances, packed full of cant phrases such as "undigested securities" and "the treacherous attack ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers
... this.—the poet who is now set up as a rival to the painter, but does not perceive that time sets a division between the words in which he describes the various parts of the beauty, and that forgetfulness intervenes and divides the proportions which he cannot name without great prolixity; he cannot compose the harmonious concord which is formed of divine proportions. And on this account beauty cannot be described in the same space of time in which a painted beauty can be seen, and it is a sin against nature to attempt to ...
— Thoughts on Art and Life • Leonardo da Vinci
... now acquaint you (without prolixity if possible) with the few things I have been able to comprehend of all these sublime ideas. With regard to the system of our world, disputes were a long time maintained, on the cause that turns the planets, and keeps them in their orbits: and ...
— Letters on England • Voltaire
... at once the class of navigation to which it was dedicated. It was a Sicilian schooner from Trapani, built for fishing. An artistic calker had sculptured a wooden cray-fish climbing over the rudder. From the two sides of the prow dangled a double row of cray-fish carved with the innocent prolixity ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
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