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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Dissertation exhibiting a general view of the ... - Page 445
by Dugald Stewart - 1829
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The Port folio, by Oliver Oldschool

700 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...commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. The fear of every one that heard him was, lest he should make an end."...
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The Port Folio

Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1801 - 674 pages
...suffered less emptiness. less idleness in what he uttered. No mem* her of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside...commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. The fear of every one that heard him was, lest he should make an end."...
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A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland ..., Volume 2

Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 430 pages
...lesse idleness in what he uttcr'd. His hearers could not cough, or looke aside from him, without losse. He commanded where he spoke, and had his 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...
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 7, Part 1

John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 882 pages
...Icsse idelness, in what he uttered. His bearers could not cough, or looke aside from him without losse. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion : no man had their affections more in his power. The feare of every man that hearde him was, lest he...
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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
...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...had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should...
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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...had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him, was, lest he should...
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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...had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him, was, lest he should...
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Relics of Literature

Reuben Percy - Autographs - 1823 - 432 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...him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and made his judges angry and pleased, at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power....
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 16

Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...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...or look aside from him without loss : he commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and (a) See note DD at the end. (6) See note EE at the end....
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 7

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Law - 1827 - 528 pages
...suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered No member of his sp.eech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside...had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should...
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