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... Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Página 356por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1813 - 706 páginas
...ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted...graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion.... | |
| 700 páginas
...ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted...graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion.... | |
| Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1801 - 674 páginas
...prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness. less idleness in what he uttered. No mem* her of his speech but consisted of 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 or pleased at his devotion.... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 páginas
...ever spake more neatly, morepressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted...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 devotion.... | |
| Reuben Percy - 1823 - 442 páginas
...censorious. No man more neatly, more priestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted...graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and made his judges angry and pleased, at his devotion.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 páginas
...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...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 devotion.... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 558 páginas
...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...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 devotion.... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 528 páginas
...ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered No member of his sp.eech but consisted...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 devotion.... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 páginas
...of his specch but consisted of its 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 devotion. The fear of every man that heard him was, that he should make an end." No finer deseription of the... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 páginas
...of his speech but consisted of its 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 devotion. The fear of every man that heard him was, that he should make an end." No finer deseription of the... | |
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