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" Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness,... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition: - Page xxxvi
by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827
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A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland ..., Volume 2

Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 426 pages
...judges angry and pleased at his devotion : no man had their affections more in his power. The feare of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end 8 ." This character is from Ben Jonson's Discoveries. Lord Bacon's domestic habits and method of study...
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A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland ..., Volume 2

Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 430 pages
...judges angry and pleased at his devotion : no man had their affections more in his power. The feare of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end8." This character is from Ben Jonson's Discoveries. Lord Bacon's domestic habits and method of...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney

Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 414 pages
...cough or look aside " froin him without loss. He commanded where he spoke : and had his"judges angry or pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections...that heard him was lest he " should make an end." See Ben Jensen's Discoveries. The author of this book is to be distinguished from Sir Thomas Pope Blount,...
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The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory ..., Volume 9

Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 464 pages
...he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, morepressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...man that heard him was, lest he should make an end. Scriptorum Catalogus* — Cicero is said to be the only wit that the people of Rome had equalled to...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant ...

Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech bat consisted of the own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside...man that heard him, was, lest he should make an end. Lord Egerton, the Chancellor, a great and grave orator, 8cc. But his learned and able (though unfortunate)...
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The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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...man that heard him, was, lest he should make an end. Lord Egerton, the Chancellor, a great and grave orator, 8cc. But his learned and able (though nnfortunatn)...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 7

Francis Bacon - 1827 - 526 pages
...grew up to his author : likeness is always on this side of truth ; yet there happened in my time onu noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking....and compare it with the sentences of the Paradoxes. (</) See Preface to vol. ip 35. (z) No man was, for bis OWD sake, less attached to system The paradoxes...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 16

Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...(d) See 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;...man that heard him was lest he should make an end." As a Patron, he considered preferment a sacred trust, to preserve and promote high feeling, encourage...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 7

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Law - 1827 - 528 pages
...granted to love and to be wise," I stop. (e) Ben Jonson in his Discoveries says, Dominus Verulatuius. One though he be excellent, and the chief, is not...man that heard him was lest he should make an end. (f) Take for instance any of the Nervous Aphorisms, in the Novum Organum, and compare it with the sentences...
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On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening

Samuel Felton - Gardeners - 1830 - 270 pages
...nature, than was common to the seafaring adventurers of that period. And posterity trious author: — " No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces....man that heard him was, lest he should make an end." Mr. Loudon, when treating on the study of plants, observes, that " This wonderful philosopher explored...
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