 | Alden Brooks - 1964 - 152 pagina’s
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 | James Thorpe - 1966 - 394 pagina’s
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 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1938 - 326 pagina’s
...have Bacon. Ben Jonson's testimony of Bacon's eloquence as an advocate is decisive. Ben Jonson said,1 "His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. The fear of every man that heard... | |
 | 1872 - 602 pagina’s
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There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking : his language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly , more weightily, or suffered less emptiness,... 
