| Jean Houston - 1995 - 224 lehte
...conducting of council meetings: He that would speak, rises. The rest observe a profound Silence. When he has finished and sits down, they leave him five or six minutes to recollect, that he has omitted anything he intended to say, or has any thing to add, he may rise again and deliver... | |
| James Campbell - 1999 - 322 lehte
...rises. The rest observe a profound Silence. When he has finish'd and sits down, they leave him 5 or 6 Minutes to recollect, that, if he has omitted any...any thing to add, he may rise again and deliver it ... How different this is from the conduct of a polite British House of Commons, where scarce a day... | |
| Kevin Reilly, Stephen Kaufman, Angela Bodino - 2003 - 438 lehte
...him 5 or 6 minutes to recollect, that, if he has omitted anything he intended to say, or has anything to add, he may rise again and deliver it. To interrupt...conversation, is reckoned highly indecent. How different this from the conduct of a polite British House of Commons, where scarce a day passes without some confusion,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - 446 lehte
...sits down; they leave him 3 or 6 Minutes to recollect, that if he has omitted any thing he iutended to say, or has any thing to add, he may rise again and deliver it. To iuterrupt another, even in common Conversation, is reckon'd higbly indecem. How differem this is, from... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 320 lehte
...writings, we always find exact. He that would speak rises. The rest observe a profound silence. When he has finished and sits down, they leave him five or six minutes to recollect that if he has omitted anything he intended to say or has anything to add he may rise again and deliver it. To interrupt another,... | |
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