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...bears the fullest testimony to his exalted oratorical powers. " There happened in my time," he says, " one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly,...

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...depict the other. Lowell says: " I can never help applying to Emerson what Ben Johnson said of Bacon: < There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less...

...the other. Lowell says : " I can never help applying to Emerson what Ben Johnson said of Bacon : ' There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less...

...has described Bacon's eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear 10 he quoted again. " is malevolence and his cupidity had been disappointed. Hastings I lis language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more...

...proper elucidation of the question then under consideration.— McQuEEN. LORD BACON'S ORATORY.—Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker who was...speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a je*) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...

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...proper elucidation of the question then nuder consideration. — McQuiiEN. LOUD BACON'S OBATOBY. — Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity iu his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man...

...speaking, to which Ben Jonson bears such admiring testimony. " There happened in my time," he says, " one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language when he could spare or pass by a jest was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly,...