| Francis Bacon - 1841 - 612 pages
...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 hie own graces. Ills hearerscould not cough, or look aside from him without lose, lie commanded where... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1841 - 624 pages
...idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearcrscould not cough, or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their aifections more in hie... | |
| Jean Siffrein Maury - Eloquence - 1842 - 320 pages
...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 couldnot cough or look aside from Mm without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...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 from him without loss. He commanded where... | |
| American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...(censor-like) ; 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 where... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1844 - 610 pages
...censorioue. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, lets idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. Ilia hearerscould not cough, or look aside from him without loss. lie commanded where... | |
| American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...censorious. No man ever spuke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, lees idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His bearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where... | |
| American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, 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 could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where... | |
| William Cabell Rives - Great Britain - 1845 - 88 pages
...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...aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. The fear of every man that heard him was... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845 - 672 pages
...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 from him without loss. He commanded where... | |
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