 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 426 pages
...judges angry and pleased at his devotion : no man had their affections more in his power. The feare of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end 8 ." This character is from Ben Jonson's Discoveries. Lord Bacon's domestic habits and method of study... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 430 pages
...judges angry and pleased at his devotion : no man had their affections more in his power. The feare of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end8." This character is from Ben Jonson's Discoveries. Lord Bacon's domestic habits and method of... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 414 pages
...cough or look aside " froin him without loss. He commanded where he spoke : and had his"judges angry or pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections...that heard him was lest he " should make an end." See Ben Jensen's Discoveries. The author of this book is to be distinguished from Sir Thomas Pope Blount,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 464 pages
...he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, morepressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...man that heard him was, lest he should make an end. Scriptorum Catalogus* — Cicero is said to be the only wit that the people of Rome had equalled to... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of the own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside...man that heard him, was, lest he should make an end. Lord Egerton, the Chancellor, a great and grave orator, 8cc. But his learned and able (though nnfortunatn)... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech bat consisted of the own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside...man that heard him, was, lest he should make an end. Lord Egerton, the Chancellor, a great and grave orator, 8cc. But his learned and able (though unfortunate)... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...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...man that heard him was lest he should make an end." As a Patron, he considered preferment a sacred trust, to preserve and promote high feeling, encourage... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 558 pages
...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...man that heard him was lest he should make an end. (/) Take for instance any of the Nervous Aphorisms, in the Novum Organum, and compare it with the sentences... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Law - 1827 - 528 pages
...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...man that heard him was lest he should make an end. (f) Take for instance any of the Nervous Aphorisms, in the Novum Organum, and compare it with the sentences... | |
 | Samuel Felton - Gardeners - 1830 - 270 pages
...nature, than was common to the seafaring adventurers of that period. And posterity trious author: — " No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces....man that heard him was, lest he should make an end." Mr. Loudon, when treating on the study of plants, observes, that " This wonderful philosopher explored... | |
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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... 
