"Parison" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... study was on tem[-] perau[n]ce / and to do in no maner otherwyse than was conuenient & fyttynge for suche a man as he was / and chiefly he sette his mynde to seueryty / he neuer made no com[-] parison with the riche man in richesse / nor with the myghty man in power. But yf nede required / with the hardy ma[n] in bold- [C.i.r] nes / with the temperate in moderacion / with the good man in innocency & iust dea[-] ling. He cared not for the name / it was suf- ficie[n]t to hym to haue the ...
— The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke • Leonard Cox
... physical and mental strength, the positive grandeur of the man—all these are like the general conceptions of the big Old Testament prophets. The suggestion is given only because it has often recurred, and therefore with the feeling that there is something more than fanciful in the com-parison; and yet, after all, the comparison fails in one important particular, for none of the prophets seems to have ...
— Acres of Diamonds • Russell H. Conwell
... these is the figure called Parison, which is formed out of two or more numbers having an equal number of words ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch |
