 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1849 - 688 pages
...not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded * Milton— Account of his own studies. where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased...man that heard him was, lest he should make an end." • There is no doubt that the evening of Bacon's life was greatly embittered by pecuniary embarrassments.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...speaking ; his language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake e we to those points which are within our own As a Patron, he considered preferment a sacred trust, to preserve and promote high feeling, encourage... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 pages
...could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever : spoke more neatly, morepressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...man that heard him was lest he should make an end." From the mention which is made of judges, it would seem that Johnson had heard Bacon only at the Bar.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...No member of his speech, but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had...man that heard him was, lest he should make an end." We are now to contemplate Bacon in the civil character which he sustained, as a lawyer. He was compelled... | |
 | 1850 - 550 pages
...clock, or whispers to his neighbour, or reads the hymn-book. As was said by Ben Jonson of Bacon, " the fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." We notice another element common to all of Mr. Everett's discourses. Though they were pronounced upon... | |
 | 1850 - 546 pages
...clock, or whispers to his neighbour, or reads the hymn-book. Aa was said by Ben Jonson of Bacon, " the fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." We notice another element common to all of Mr. Everett's discourses. Though they were pronounced upon... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss : he commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at...man that heard him was lest he should make an end." It would have been fortunate for society if this check had impressed upon his mind the vanity of attempting... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...commanded «-here he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had fneir affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." From the mention which is made oi jwlga, it would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the bar.... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had flieir aflections chap. ».— Digreifion. try, hated at the India House, hated, above all, by those weal From the mention which is made of jvlfef, it would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the bar.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
