 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 commanded...  English Prose: Selections - Page 12edited by - 1894Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 512 pages
...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...or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 pages
...ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less empti ness, less idleness, ill what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted...graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from liim without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.... | |
 | George Lewis Prentiss - 1861 - 398 pages
...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 from him without loss." The main topic of his address at this time was the SubTreasury scheme, to whose recent defeat his own... | |
 | 1861 - 878 pages
...Ü? Aufjmentis or the Л ovum Or'uun ; dazzled by accounts of the .nal orator who "commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion ;"* of the philosophic lawyer whose plans of reform have even yet to be thoroughly arried out ; few... | |
 | 1862 - 490 pages
...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...or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...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...or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more... | |
 | Paul Jacquinet - 1863 - 160 pages
...ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more « weightily, orjsuffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he « uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted...could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. <i He commanded where he spok ; and had his judges angry and « pleased at his devotion. No man had... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...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...or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...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...or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered./' No member of his speech bn* consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not...or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more... | |
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