 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 the own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He...  Bacon: His Writings and His Philosophy - Σελίδα 16των George Lillie Craik - 1846Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1872 - 862 σελίδες
...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 he spoke, and had his... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 610 σελίδες
...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 he spoke ; and... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 672 σελίδες
...His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...affections more in his power. The fear of every man who heard him was lest he should make an end."* So intoxicated was Bacon with the success of his first... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1845 - 88 σελίδες
...he, " in my tune one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 σελίδες
...His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more - uside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1846 - 598 σελίδες
...suffered less emptiness, or less idleness in what he uttered. Xo 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 he spake; and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1846 - 574 σελίδες
...censorious. No man ever spoke more greatly, more precisely, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, or less idleness in what he 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... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 576 σελίδες
...Jonson upon Bacon was applied to him — that "he commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power ; and the fear of every man that heard him was lest he should come to an end." " The Lord Chancellor... | |
 | 1846 - 506 σελίδες
...such an attempt as this to popularize a Great Writer :— " Jonson has said of Bacon's speaking, that his hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss ; neither can his readers remit their attention for a sentence, or for a clause of a sentence, without... | |
 | 1847 - 650 σελίδες
...every reader is its fulness of matter. Jonson, as we have seen, has said of Bacon's speaking, that his hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss ; neither can his readers remit their attention for a sentence, or for a clause of a sentence, without... | |
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