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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the ... - Page xix
by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848
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Shaw's New History of English Literature

Thomas Budd Shaw - 1874 - 446 pages
...his own graces. His hearers could not congh or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at...every man that heard him was lest he should make an end."—Sen Jonson, referring to Bacon. 6 honest compliment to the Queen, until old age, when he surrendered...
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The Works of Ben Jonson: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and ..., Volume 9

Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 pages
...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...man that heard him was, lest he should make an end. LXXIX. Scriptorum Catalogus.* — Cicero is said to be the only wit that the people of Rome had equalled...
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Eminent English writers

William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pages
...hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and Lad his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man...man that heard him, was lest he should make an end. ' On the promotion of Sir Edward Coke to be attorneygeneral, in 1594, Bacon became a candidate for...
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Bericht Über Die Realschule I. Ordnung Zu Leipzig Im Schuljahr 1874-1875

Michael Walsh - 1875 - 98 pages
...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 power. The fear of every man that heard him was that he should make an end". At the very outset of his parliamentary career Bacon acquired considerable...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...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...man that heard him was lest he should make an end." From the mention which is made of judges, it would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the Bar....
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Chambers's national reading-books, Book 6

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...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...man that heard him was, lest he should make an end. De Augmentis Scientiarwm?—Julius Ccesar.—Lord St All1an.—I have ever observed it to have been...
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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 898 pages
...his own graces. His hearers couJd not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at...every man that heard him was lest he should make an cnJ." From the mention which is made of judges, it would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 16

1877 - 510 pages
...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...their affections more in his power. The fear of every one that heard him was lest he should make an end ! " And that was just the fear we all had when Choate...
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The British Parliament ... The pearls and mock pearls of history ...

Abraham Hayward - 1878 - 482 pages
...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...man that heard him was lest he should make an end.' Clarendon's pages teem with proof that the period included in his history was marked by debating ability...
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New History of English Literature

Thomas Budd Shaw - 1878 - 444 pages
...graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without lose. He commanded where he spoko, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion....power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest ho should make an end."— Sen Jonson, referring to Baton. honest compliment to the Queen], until old...
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