...capacious rather than a subtle mind. Ben Jonson, a most unexceptionable judge, has described Bacon's eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will...his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his...

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...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his...

...Bacon's language: "There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speech. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more...his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry or pleased at his discretion."...

...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...his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at...

...his famous Novum Organum, which appeared in 1620. Of him Ben Jonson, his contemporary, wrote : ' ' There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. ... I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed...

...Bacon's language: "There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speech. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more...his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry or pleased at his discretion."...

...fitly adapt Ben Jonson's tribute to a great contemporary: "There happened in my time one noble speaker. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more...member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. He commanded where he spoke." This gracious command of hearers and of theme, which enlisted our large...

...fitly adapt Ben Jonson's tribute to a great contemporary: "There happened in my time one noble speaker. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more...member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. He commanded where he spoke." This gracious command of hearers and of theme, which enlisted our large...

...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at...