 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 426 pàgines
...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 - 1806 - 430 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 - 1816 - 464 pàgines
...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 - 1818 - 312 pàgines
...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pàgines
...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 - 1827 - 526 pàgines
...grew up to his author : likeness is always on this side of truth ; yet there happened in my time onu noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking....and compare it with the sentences of the Paradoxes. (</) See Preface to vol. ip 35. (z) No man was, for bis OWD sake, less attached to system The paradoxes... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pàgines
...(d) See vol. vi. p. 400, ante, p. clxxxi. (e) Ante, p. xxviii. I venture here to repeat the passage. noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking;...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 - 528 pàgines
...granted to love and to be wise," I stop. (e) Ben Jonson in his Discoveries says, Dominus Verulatuius. One though he be excellent, and the chief, is not...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 - 1830 - 270 pàgines
...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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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,... 
