Excerpt from Notes From a Diary, Vol. 2 of 2: 1896 to January 23, 1901
Robert Herbert, Sir E. Maunde Thompson, Lord Davey, and Mr. Pember were present. Talking of Leighton and his all too elaborate eloquence, our chairman mentioned that after a Royal Academy dinner the President had asked Mr. Bright’s opinion of his speeches. The great orator was very reluctant to say anything; but on being pressed rather to give an unfavourable answer than none at all, said: Too much confectionery, wasn’t there? It was Lord Rathmore, too, who told us that Lord Shaftesbury, vainly attempting to cut a pencil in which the lead continually broke, exclaimed D the pencil But perceiving that one of his sons was present saved the situation by adding: That is what your poor grandfather would have said.
Who was the man of whom it was remarked that there was in him, Nihil durum nisi calculus?
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