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The Great Oyer of Poisoning: The Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the ... - Page 466
by Andrew Amos - 1846 - 551 pages
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 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 uside from him without loss. He commanded where...
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Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 512 pages
...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 he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his...
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Ethica: Or, Characteristics of Men, Manners, and Books

Arthur Lloyd Windsor - English literature - 1860 - 428 pages
...emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. 1 1238. 24—2 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 when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. The fear of every man that heard...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volumes 3-4

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1008 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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A Memoir of S. S. Prentiss, Volume 1

George Lewis Prentiss - Lawyers - 1861 - 398 pages
...himself : " No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered ; no member of his...could not cough, or look aside from him without loss." The main topic of his address at this time was the SubTreasury scheme, to whose recent defeat his own...
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The Christian Examiner, Volume 72

Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 490 pages
...speaking. 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...
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Francisci Baconi de re litteraria judicia

Paul Jacquinet - 1863 - 160 pages
...(1) « No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more « weightily, orjsuffered 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. <i He commanded...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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 his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1864 - 556 pages
...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 he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 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 his own graces. His. hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where...
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