 | William Betham - Baronetage - 1801 - 580 pages
...wit, his memory, judgment, and elocution, so that Sir Walter Raleigh once said before the doctor, that the Earl of Salisbury was an excellent speaker, but no good penman; the Earl of Northampton, and the Lord Henry Howard, excellent penmen, but no good speakers; but that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...Walter Rawleigh once speak of him by way of comparison (whose judgment may well be trusted), ' That the Earl of Salisbury was an excellent speaker, but...(the Lord Henry Howard) was an excellent penman, but DO good speaker; but that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent in both.'" — See Ben Jonson's observations,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...speak of him by way of comparison (whose judgment may well be trusted), ' That the Earl of Salishury was an excellent speaker, but no good penman; that...but that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent in both.'" — See Ben Jonson's observations, ante, p. 28. to dissipate illusions, by holding firm to the works... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 562 pages
...authority. him by way of comparison (whose judgment may well be trusted), That the Earl of Salisburg was an excellent speaker, but no good penman ; that the Earl of Northampton (the Lord Henig Howard) ,vas an excellent penntnn, bnt no good speaker ; bnt that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 490 pages
...what I heard Sir Walter Raleigh once speak of him by way of comparison : ' that the Earl of Salsbury was an excellent speaker, but no good penman ; that the Earl of Northampton, Lord Henry Howard, was an excellent penman, but no good speaker ; but that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 556 pages
...adds, ut tie Julio Guare Hirtiw. him by way of comparison (whose judgment may well be trusted), That the Earl of Salisbury was an excellent speaker, but no good penman ; that the Earl of Northampton (jtJie Lord Henry Howard) was an excellent penman, but no yood speaker ; but that /Sir Francis Bacon... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1871 - 642 pages
...which, with what sufficiency he wrote, let the world judge, but with what relerity he wrote them, I Henry Howard) was an excellent penman but no good...: but that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent in both." In the composing of his books he did rather drive at a masculine and clear expression than at any fineness... | |
 | John Nichol - 1888 - 236 pages
...fourth, his elocution, I will only set down what I heard Sir Walter Raleigh once speak of him. . . . That the Earl of Salisbury was an excellent speaker, but no good penman ; that the Lord Henry Howard was an excellent penman, but no good speaker ; but that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent... | |
 | John Nichol - 1888 - 270 pages
...fourth, his elocution, I will only set down what I heard Sir Walter Ealeigh once speak of him. . . . That the Earl of Salisbury was an excellent speaker, but no good penman ; that the Lord Henry Howard was an excellent penman, but no good speaker ; but that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent... | |
 | John Nichol - 1888 - 246 pages
...fourth, his elocution, I will only set down what I heard Sir Walter Ealeigh once speak of him. . . . That the Earl of Salisbury was an excellent speaker, but no good penman; that the Lord Henry Howard was an excellent penman, but no good speaker ; but that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent... | |
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But for the fourth, his elocution, I will only set down what I heard Sir Walter Raleigh once speak of him by way of comparison (whose judgment may well be trusted), That the Earl of Salisbury was an excellent speaker, but no good penman ; that the Earl... 
