 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...this conformity was either perceived or intended by Johnson. The precept alluded to is as follows : ' In all kinds of speech, either pleasant, grave, severe,...ordinary, it is convenient to speak leisurely, and rather drawlingly than hastily : because hasty speech confounds the memory, and oftentimes, besides the unseemliness,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...conformity was either perceived or intended by Johnson. The precept al/ luded to is as follows : ' In all kinds of speech, either pleasant, grave, severe,...ordinary, it is convenient to speak leisurely, and rather drawlingly than hastily : | because hasty speech confounds the memory, and oftentimes, besides the... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 546 pages
...sufficient, with leisure, to use a modest action of either. III. In all kinds of speech, it is proper to speak leisurely, and rather drawingly, than hastily ; because hasty speech confounds the memory, and often drives a man to anon-plus, or an unseemly stammering : whereat slow speech confirms the memory,... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...himself forward with discretion, both in speech and company of the better sort. Usus promptusfacit. IN all kinds of speech, either pleasant, grave, severe,...ordinary, it is convenient to speak leisurely, and rather drawlingly than hastily, because hasty speech confounds the memory, and oftentimes (besides unseemliness)... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 292 pages
...public or sudden accidents, or such like. , 2. It is necessary to use a stedfast countenance, not waving with action, as in moving the head or hand too much,...the memory, and oftentimes (besides unseemliness) drive a man either to a non-plus or unseemly stammering, harping upon that which should follow ; whereas... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...this conformity was either perceived or intended by Johnson. The precept alluded to isas follows : In all kinds of speech, either pleasant, grave, severe,...ordinary, it is convenient to speak leisurely, and rather drawlingly than hastily ; because hasty speech confound« the memory, and oftentimes, be« i des the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 380 pages
...this conformity was either perceived or intended by Johnson. The precept alluded to is as follows : ' In all kinds of speech, either pleasant, grave, severe,...ordinary, it is convenient 'to speak leisurely, and rather drawlingly than hastily : because hasty speech confounds the memory, and oftentimes, besides the unseemliness,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...consequently like mind as gesture : only it is sufficient, with leisure, to use a modest action in either. In all kinds of speech, either pleasant, grave, severe,...non-plus or unseemly stammering, harping upon that whic! should follow; whereas a slow speech confirmeth I memory, addeth a conceit of wisdom to the hearei... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 444 pages
...this conformity was either perceived or intended by Johnson. The precept alluded to is as follows : ' In all kinds of speech, either pleasant, grave, severe,...ordinary, it is convenient to speak leisurely, and rather drawlingly than hastily ; because hasty speech confounds the memory, and oftentimes, besides the unseemliness,... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - English literature - 1829 - 358 pages
...state of things, must have outstripped his hearers. " In all kinds of speech," (says Lord Bacon) " either pleasant, grave, severe, or ordinary, it is convenient to speak leisurely, and rather drawlingly, than hastily ; because hasty speech confounds the memory, and oftentimes, beside the unseemliness,... | |
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... or harping on that which should follow ; whereas a slow speech confirmeth the memory, addeth a conceit of wisdom to the hearers, besides a seemliness of speech and countenance. 
