 | 1837 - 608 pages
...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 speaking. His language, where he 'could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man 'ever spoke more... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...language, where he could pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, those sounds which make words, which by composition and transposition of letters are infinite speech, but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside without loss. He... | |
 | 1838 - 870 pages
...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 speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 pages
...gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 pages
...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 speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more... | |
 | 1841 - 608 pages
...picture of the very highest order of oratory, that we will present it in his own words. "There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly,... | |
 | 1841 - 632 pages
...picture of the very highest order of oratory, that we will present it in his own words. "There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 612 pages
...imitator ever grew up to Ыа author : likenesi is always on this side of truth ; yet there happened in my time one noble speaker} who was full of gravity in hid speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever... | |
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - 1842 - 320 pages
...its office and duty. " There happened," says he, " in my time, one noble speaker (he means Bacon), who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever...less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers couldnot cough or look aside from Mm without loss.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 pages
...Bacon's 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 speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more... | |
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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. 
