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" Yet 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, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness,... "
The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge - Página 249
por Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1835
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An Anecdotal History of the British Parliament: From the Earliest Periods to ...

George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 páginas
...Exemplary Oratory. — Ben Jonson writes of Bacon, in his "Discoveries made upon Men and Matter": — "There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. Ho man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less...
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Reviews and essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1881 - 386 páginas
...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,...
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The Biographical History of Philosophy: From Its Origin in Greece Down to ...

George Henry Lewes - 1881 - 868 páginas
...admirable judge to assure us that Bacon's oratory was worthy of his other powers. Ben Jonson thus writes: "There happened, in my time, one noble speaker, who was full of giavity in his speaking. His language, where ho could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious....
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Learned in the law; or, Examples and encouragements from the ..., Página 55

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 páginas
...bears the fullest testimony to his exalted oratorical powers. " There happened in my time," he says, " one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking....His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less...
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The Wit and Wisdom of the Bench and Bar

Frederick Charles Moncreiff - 1882 - 204 páginas
...represent a speaker as nearly as possible perfect. "There happened in my time," says that elegant writer, " one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his...His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less...
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In Memoriam. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Recollections of His Visits to England in ...

Alexander Ireland - 1882 - 128 páginas
...which all doctrine is chaff." " I can never help applying to him what Ben Jonson said of Bacon — 'There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less...
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Halleck's New English Literature

Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 678 páginas
...Parliament in 1584 and distinguished himself as a speaker. Ben Jonson, the dramatist, says of him : " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...
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Halleck's New English Literature

Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 páginas
...Parliament in 1584 and distinguished himself as a speaker. Ben Jonson, the dramatist, says of him : " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...
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English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restoration

Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 624 páginas
...of his that we understand the full force of Ben Jonson's famous eulogium. "He was full of gravity'in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less...
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College Readings in English Prose

Frank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin - 1914 - 690 páginas
...striking out its purple patches of "fine writing." Here is Ben Jonson's description of Bacon's language: "There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speech. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less...
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