 | 700 pages
...speaks of the eloquence of lord Bacon: " There happened in my time one noble speaker (lord Verulam) who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language,...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | 1813 - 706 pages
...speaks of the eloquence of lord Bacon; " There happened in my time one noble speaker (lord Verulam) who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language,...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 pages
...grew up to his author ; likeness is always on this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking....pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, morepressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...Contemporary, in his " Discoveries," p. 101, fyc. L HERE happened in my time, one noble Speaker, [Lord Verulam] who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more expressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...Contemporary, in hit " Discoveries," p. 101, Sfc. I HERE happened in my time, one noble Speaker, [Lord Verulam] who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more expressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1823 - 442 pages
...language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man more neatly, more priestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...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 made his judges... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...vol. vi. p. 400, ante, p. clxxxi. (e) Ante, p. xxviii. I venture here to repeat the passage. noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking; his...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 558 pages
...to his author : likeness is always on this side of truth ; yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking....pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 528 pages
...to his author : likeness is always on this side of truth ; yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking....pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 pages
...There happened," says he, " in my time, one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where... | |
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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... 
