 No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded...  Letters to 'The Times', 1884-1922 - Pagina 281door Thomas Case - 1927 - 284 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 504 pagina’s
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 510 pagina’s
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pagina’s
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, a man of letters amongst men of the world. Mere scholars were dazzled by th No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not congh or look aside... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pagina’s
...language, where he could pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, Pompey, are " sui amantes sine rivali," are many times unfortunate. And wher No member of his speech, but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 pagina’s
...noble speaker, who was lull of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pagina’s
...could spare or ptv-s by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestí у, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pagina’s
...lie could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside... | |
 | John Campbell (1st baron.) - 1857 - 426 pagina’s
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside... | |
 | John Leifchild - 1857 - 110 pagina’s
...of Lord Bacon, by one of his contemporaries, that " no man ever spoke more neatly, more pressingly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own B graces. His hearers could not cough, nor look aside... | |
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