 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...  Critical and historical essays - Page 351by Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 pages
...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...would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the bar. Indeed, we imagine that the House of Commons was then almost inaccessible to strangers. It is... | |
 | 1841 - 632 pages
...look aside from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke ; and his judges were pleased or angry at his devotion. No man had their affections more...man that heard him was lest he should make an end. Cicero is said to be the only wit that the people of Rome had equaled in their empire. Ingenium par... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 pages
...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...would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the bar. Indeed we imagine that the House of Commons was then almost inaccessible to strangers. It is not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 610 pages
...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...man that heard him was lest he should make an end. 3 Tafcf for instance any of the Nervom Aphorisms, in the Novum Organum, and compare it with the sentences... | |
 | 1855 - 602 pages
...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...affections more in his power. The fear of every man who heard him was lest he should make an end." In politics, however, he made a perilous attempt to... | |
 | 1872 - 862 pages
...but consisted of his own graces. His bearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry...their affections more in his power. The fear of every тал that heard him was lett He thovld made an end." Clarendon's pages teem with proof that the period... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...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...every man that heard him was lest he should make an end."f In 1592, also, appeared Bacon's first publication, as far as is known : ' Certain Observations... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at hi( devotion.' No man had their affections more in his...every man that heard him was lest he should make an end."f In 1592, also, appeared Bacon's first puhlication, as far as is known: ' Certain Ohservations... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...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...man that heard him was, lest he should make an end. My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 498 pages
...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...man that heard him was lest he should make an end." The patriotism of Samuel Adams was undoubted, and his personal worth was of the most exalted character.... | |
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