| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 706 pages
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...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 where... | |
| 700 pages
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...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 where... | |
| Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1801 - 674 pages
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more 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... | |
| Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 424 pages
...could spare or pass- by a jest, was nobly censorious. No" man ever spoke more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered •* less emptiness, less...uttered. No member of his speech " but consisted of his own grace : His hearers could not cough or look aside " from him withost loss. He commanded where... | |
| 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,...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 where... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more expressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of the own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded, where... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more expressly, more weightily, or 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 from him without loss. He... | |
| Reuben Percy - Autographs - 1823 - 442 pages
...language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man more neatly, more priestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...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 where... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...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, less idleness...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 where... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Law - 1827 - 528 pages
...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, less idleness...uttered No member of his sp.eech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where... | |
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