 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 the own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He...  Bacon: His Writings and His Philosophy - Page 16by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | John Leifchild - 1857 - 110 pages
...of Lord Bacon, by one of his contemporaries, that " no man ever spoke more neatly, more pressingly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own B graces. His hearers could not cough, nor look aside from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke,... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 188 pages
...— " His language (when he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges, angry and pleased, at...devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.... | |
 | New general biographical dictionary - 1857 - 528 pages
...he would spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more preesly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, lese idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech...judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had fheir affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 882 pages
...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...aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he sjioke , and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had And as he was a good servant... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1858 - 1022 pages
...(ггж-ея. His hearers could not couirh or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoko, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion....No man had their affections more in his power. The ft-ar of every man that hertrd him was Ifist he should muke an end." — Di.'vnvri?s. Bacon's earliest... | |
 | George Bradshaw - 1858 - 652 pages
...Meautys, or Mewtis, his admirer, as he calls himself. " Ño man," says Ben Jonson, " ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily; or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. . . . His hearers could not look aside from him without loss. ... No man had their affections more... | |
 | George Bradshaw - 1858 - 904 pages
...less idleness, in what he uttered. . . . His hearers could not look aside from him without IONS. ... No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every one that heard him was. lest he should make an end." The Abbey Church, partly restored, and still In... | |
 | 1858 - 878 pages
...admirable. As Ben Jonson said of his speeches in Parliament, " No man ever spake more neatly, more briefly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered." Never, surely, was truth more closely packed, or conveyed in language more pithy, nervous, and striking.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...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...at his devotion. No man had their affections more ii his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." As a Patron, he... | |
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