 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pagina’s
...neatly, more presslv, 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 uside from him without loss. He commanded «-here he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pagina’s
...neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. ambassador and cabinet councillor ; mere politicians by the essayist and hist congh or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 506 pagina’s
...to him the compliment passed by Ben Jonson on Lord Verulam : — " He commanded when he spoke ; he had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power ; and the fear of every man that heard him was lest he should come to an end.'' In general politics,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pagina’s
...No member of his speech, but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside the ordina We are now to contemplate Bacon in the civil character which he sustained, as a lawyer. He was compelled... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 pagina’s
...suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside...had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. The fear of every man that heard him was, that ho should make an end." Xo finer description of the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 pagina’s
...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...affections more in his power. The fear of every man who heard him was lest he should make an end." In politics, however, he made a perilous attempt to... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pagina’s
...neatly, more prestí у, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces....commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. The fear of every one that heard him was, lest he should make an end."... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pagina’s
...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....man that heard him was, lest he should make an end. My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place or honors, but I have and do reverence... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 pagina’s
...own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where ho spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his...man that heard him was, lest he should make an end. My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 pagina’s
...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....commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry arid pleased at his devotion. No man had ftieir affections more in his power. The fear of every man... | |
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The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end. 
