 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1850 - 610 pagina’s
...speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. Hi« language (where he could spare or pass by n Jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more...pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, leas idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pagina’s
...author. " There happened in my time," says the learned poet, " one noble speaker, the Lord Verxilam, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1851 - 248 pagina’s
...judge to assure us that Bacon's oratory was worthy of his other powers. Ben Jonson thus writes : " There happened, in my time, one noble speaker, who...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pyessly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 504 pagina’s
...that he should retain his seat in the Lower House. " There happened in my time," says Ben Jonson, " one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking....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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 510 pagina’s
...that he should retain his seat in the Lower House. " There happened in my time," says Ben Jonson, " one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking....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... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pagina’s
...judge, has described his eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " other sections of the Opposition — with the little spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1853 - 528 pagina’s
...in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking ; his language, when he would spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more preisly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered : no member of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 430 pagina’s
...judge, has described his eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his Treasurer for the admonition, and promised to profit by it. Strangers meanwhile were less unjust to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pagina’s
...author. " There happened in my time," says the learned poet, " one noble speaker, the Lord Verulam, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pagina’s
...speaks of the eloquence of Lord Bacon : " There happened in my time one noble speaker (Lord Yerulam) who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or ptv-s by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestí у, more weightily,... | |
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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 from him without loss. He commanded... 
