 | 700 pages
...eloquence of lord Bacon: " There happened in my time one noble speaker (lord Verulam) who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1801 - 674 pages
...eloquence of lord Bacon: " There happened in my time one noble speaker (lord Verulam) who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness. less idleness in what... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 pages
...likeness is always on this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, morepressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...Discoveries," p. 101, fyc. L HERE happened in my time, one noble Speaker, [Lord Verulam] who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more expressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...Discoveries," p. 101, Sfc. I HERE happened in my time, one noble Speaker, [Lord Verulam] who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more expressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1823 - 432 pages
...side of truth. Yet there happened in my time, one noble speaker (Lord Chancellor Bacon) who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he...spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man more neatly, more priestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...speaks of his parliamentary eloquence : " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking : his language, where he...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 528 pages
...likeness is always on this side of truth ; yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 558 pages
...likeness is always on this side of truth ; yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...Jonson says nearly the same of Lord Bacon. There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he...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... | |
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His language, where he could spare or 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 he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of [his] own... 
