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They should be simple, yet not trivial; efficient, yet not unnecessarily rigorous, and should be drawn up, if not perspicuously, at least intelligibly.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

Baptista Giraldi, and Guazzo; all three having written upon the Ethick part of Morall Philosophie both exactly and perspicuously.

From Spenser by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

I must have read very perspicuously, or the poor soul must have been deeply interested, for I remember she had a cloudy impression, after I had done, that they were a sort of vegetable.

From David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles

As the monad and the centre of a circle are images from their simplicity of this greatest of principles, so likewise do they perspicuously shadow forth to us its causal comprehension of all things.

From Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Taylor, Thomas

The art wanted is one that will enable us to use language perspicuously in expressing our premises:' and he might have added—direct us in selecting proper materials of which to make premises.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob