...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...

...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."...

...be he yt moves my bones. Ben Jonson says of Bacon, as orator: His language, where he could spare and pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his (its) own graces. . . . The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end. From Macaulay:...

...good speaker. Ben Jonson said of him : " He was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside frqm him, without loss. He commanded where he spake; and had his judges angry and pleased at...

...he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious, No man ever spake more neatly, more rightly, 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...

...speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language 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." Those who heard him while their natures...