| Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1857 - 522 pages
...forensic oratory. Coke exclaimed, ' Mr Bacon, if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out ; fur it will do you more hurt than all the teeth in your head will do you good.' Bacon replied, ' The less you speak of your own greatness, the more I will think of it. • Coke replied,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1857 - 524 pages
...will complete our model of his forensic oratory. Coke exclaimed, * Mr Bacon, if you have any tooih against me, pluck it out ; for it will do you more hurt than all (he teeth in your head will do you good.' Bacon replied, ' The less you speak of your own greatness,... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1857 - 426 pages
...for it will do you more hurt than all the teeth in your head will do you good." Bacon (coldly). — " Mr. Attorney, 1 respect you ; I fear you not : and the less you speak of yonr own greatness, the more I will think of it." Mr. Attorney. — " I think scorn to stand upon... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1858 - 574 pages
...A specimen will complete our model of his forensic oratory. Coke exclaimed — " Mr. Bacon, if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out ; for it will...than all the teeth in your head will do you good." Bacon replied — " The less you speak of your own greatness, the more I will think of it." Coke replied... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1859 - 526 pages
...oratory. Coke exclaimed, ' Mr B^con, if you have any i<joth against met pluck it out ; f«r it wi<l do you more hurt than all the teeth in your head will do you giiod.' Bacon replied, ' The lew you speak of your own greatness, me more I will think of it. • Coke... | |
| John Stoughton - London (England) - 1864 - 302 pages
...the contests between these memorable barristers. " Mr. Bacon," said the Attorney-General, " if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out, for it will...than all the teeth in your head will do you good." "Mr. Attorney, I respect you," said Bacon, "but I fear you not ; and the less you speak of your own... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1864 - 494 pages
...oratory. Coke exclaimed, " Mr. Bacon, if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out ; for it will dc you more hurt than all the teeth in your head will do you good." Bacon replied, " The less you speak of your own * State Trials. greatness, the more I will think of... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1866 - 570 pages
...A specimen will complete our model of his forensic oratory. Coke exclaimed — " Mr. Bacon, if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out ; for it will do you more hurt than all the tooth in your head will do you good." Bacon replied — " The less you speak of your own greatness,... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - Biography - 1867 - 370 pages
...indignation. Then took place a duello in the following quaint fashion : — • Said Coke. " Mr. Bacon, if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out, for it will...than all the teeth in your head will do you good." Said Bacon. " Mr. Attorney, I respect you; I fear you not; and the less you speak of your own greatness... | |
| John Cordy Jeaffreson - Law - 1867 - 464 pages
...Cairns were to imitate the violence of Coke in his outburst against Bacon. " Coke. — Mr. Bacon, if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out, for it will...more hurt than all the teeth in your head will do good. Bacon (coldly). — Mr. Attorney, I respect you ; I fear you not ; and the less you speak of... | |
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