 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 trang
...of gravity in his speaking. 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 its own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 trang
...of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his specch but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him without... | |
 | Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 trang
...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....commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion: no man had their affections more in his power; the fear of every man that... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 trang
...of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more mightily, or 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 from him without loss. He commanded when... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 trang
...GottholdLessing, 1729, Kametz. G. Lord Byron, 1788, London'! There happened in my time one noble speaker. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces....commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 trang
...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...commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 trang
...jest was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or 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 from him without loss : he commanded when... | |
 | 1835 - 1102 trang
...by a jest, nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prisly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered,...of his speech but consisted of his own graces ; his bearers could not cough nor look aside from him « it limit loss. He commanded when he spoke; and his... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1835 - 564 trang
...by a jest, nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prisly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered,...member of his speech but consisted of his own graces ; bis hearers could not cough nor look asMe from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke; and... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 trang
...jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or 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 from him without loss : he commanded when... | |
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His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should... 
