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Learned in the law; or, Examples and encouragements from the lives of ... - Page 24
by William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882
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Bacon; His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No memher of his speech hut consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not...he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at hi( devotion.' No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him...
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The Great Oyer of Poisoning: The Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the ...

Andrew Amos - Poisoning - 1846 - 574 pages
...suffered less emptiness, or 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 he spake ; and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his...
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The Great Oyer of Poisoning: The Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the ...

Andrew Amos - Poisoning - 1846 - 598 pages
...suffered less emptiness, or less idleness in what he uttered. Xo 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 he spake; and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member k ѓ & x c& =j [S ;a쌂5| v >К1 $ W R0 % V $ +I { A~/ Y @F uside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his...
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Bacon: His Writings and His Philosophy

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...every 'reader is its Aulness of matter. Jonson, as we have seen, has said of '^aeon's speaking, that his hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss ; neither can his readers remit their attention for a sentence, or for a clause of a sentence, without...
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Knight's Penny Magazine, Volumes 1-2

Civilization - 1846 - 506 pages
...such an attempt as this to popularize a Great Writer :— " Jonson has said of Bacon's speaking, that his hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss ; neither can his readers remit their attention for a sentence, or for a clause of a sentence, without...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...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...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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 12

Literature - 1847 - 650 pages
...every reader is its fulness of matter. Jonson, as we have seen, has said of Bacon's speaking, that his hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss ; neither can his readers remit their attention for a sentence, or for a clause of a sentence, without...
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Orators of the American Revolution

Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1848 - 536 pages
...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...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...
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The Biblical Repository and Classical Review, Volume 4

Theology - 1848 - 792 pages
...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 he spoke, and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. The fear of every man that heard...
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