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...has described Bacon's eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...

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...tradition, no rational doubt can be entertained of their excellence. Ben Jonson writes thus of Bacon: — " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in bis speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, wag nobly censorious. No man ever...

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...that he should retain his seat in the Lower House. " There happened in my time," says Ben Jonson, " one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking....could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...

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...would he have appeared to us, if we had heard him!" " There happened," writes Ben Jonson of Bacon, " in my time, one noble speaker, who was full of gravity...could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more greatly, more precisely, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, or less...

...would he have appeared to us, if we had heard him!" "There happened," writes Ben Jonson of Bacon, " in my time, one noble speaker, who was full of gravity...could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more greatly, more precisely, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, or less...

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