 | 1835 - 1102 páginas
...remarkable one : its discrimination and its raciness give weight to the opinion which it expresses: ' There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prisly,... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 388 páginas
...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, 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... | |
 | 1837 - 608 páginas
...judge, has described his eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. 'There happened in my time one noble speaker who '...spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suf' fered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No mem'ber of his speech but consisted... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 382 páginas
...trade, the colonies and the court ; and of his parliamentary eloquence his friend Ben Jonson says, " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | 1838 - 870 páginas
...judge, has described his eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more prcssly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 páginas
...author. " There happened in my time," says the learned poet, " one noble speaker, the Lord Verulam, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 páginas
...judge, has described his eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. ' There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 624 páginas
...alone ; for no imitator ever grew up to hie author : likeness \s nlways on this side of truth ; yet there happened In my time one noble speaker, who was...his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pats by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,... | |
 | 1841 - 608 páginas
...given so true a picture of the very highest order of oratory, that we will present it in his own words. "There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more precisely,... | |
 | 1841 - 632 páginas
...given so true a picture of the very highest order of oratory, that we will present it in his own words. "There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more precisely,... | |
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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... 
