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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 - Page lxvi
by Francis Bacon - 1852
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Bericht Über Die Realschule I. Ordnung Zu Leipzig Im Schuljahr 1874-1875

Michael Walsh - 1875 - 98 pages
...parliamentary tactician. Ben Jonson, an eye and ear witness, describes Bacon's eloquence as follows: „There happened in my time one noble speaker who...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, 6) Works, Lett. Temp. Eliz. No. 7. or suffered less...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...has decribed Bacon's eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weighty, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 16

Law - 1877 - 510 pages
...memorable words on the wonderful power of Lord Bacon, for they are all applicable to Mr. Choate : " There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less idleness, in what he uttered. No...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 16

Law - 1877 - 510 pages
...Jonson's memorable words on the wonderful power of Lord Bacon, for they are all applicable to Mr. Choate: "There happened in my time one noble speaker, who...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less idleness, in what he uttered. No...
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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1877 - 898 pages
...words, which, though often quoted, .will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noblo speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what...
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Masterpieces in English Literature: And Lessons in the English ..., Volume 1

Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 462 pages
...After this. Bacon was more cautious. As an orator he received the commendation of old Ben Jonson, who says, "There happened in my time one noble speaker,...spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or Buffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech hut consisted of...
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New History of English Literature

Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1878 - 444 pages
...when he could spare or pass a jest, waa nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more preesly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...hearers could not cough or look aside from him without lose. He commanded where he spoko, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 150

English literature - 1879 - 634 pages
...on the minds of his hearers. ' There happened in my time,' he writes. ' one noble speaker, who W.IK full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where...idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but con* Speddiug, ' Life,' yol. vp 243. sisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look...
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The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 2

George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias - 1879 - 836 pages
...in after life remember. Ben Jonson compliments his parliamentary eloquence highly, alleging that " no man ever spake 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 when...
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On Renascence Drama: Or, History Made Visible

William Thomson - Authors, English - 1880 - 382 pages
...attempt to explain the blunder, " Csesar did never wrong but with just cause ;" but, of the other—" There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, 1 without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion....
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