...judge, has described his eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. 'There happened in my time one noble speaker who '...was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he 'could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man 'ever spoke more neatly, more...

...trade, the colonies and the court ; and of his parliamentary eloquence his friend Ben Jonson says, " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking; his language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly,...

...judge, has described his eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more prcssly,...

...judge, has described his eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. ' There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly,...

...given so true a picture of the very highest order of oratory, that we will present it in his own words. "There happened in my time one noble speaker, who...His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more precisely, more weightily, or suffered less...

...given so true a picture of the very highest order of oratory, that we will present it in his own words. "There happened in my time one noble speaker, who...His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more precisely, more weightily, or suffered less...

...alone ; for no imitator ever grew up to Ыа author : likenesi is always on this side of truth ; yet there happened in my time one noble speaker} who was full of gravity in hid speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever...

...has described Bacon's eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly,...

...had often listened to him with delight, and who was highly qualified to judge of his pretensions. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious (censor-like) ; no man ever spake more...

...tradition, no rational doubt can be entertained of their excellence. Ben Jonson writes thus of Bacon: — " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in bis speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, wag nobly censorious. No man ever...