 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 228 pages
...Discourse1 desire rather commendation of wit,2 in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment,3 in discerning what is true ; as if it were a praise...and not what should be thought. Some have certain common-places and themes,4 wherein they are good, and want variety ; which kind of poverty is for the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary, and intermingle Some in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to holde all arguments, then of ludgment in discerning what is true ; as if it were a praise to knowe... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 pages
...will a daw trie: That curse God send unto mine enemie! ' FRANCIS BACON. 39 / FRANCIS BACON. DISCOURSE. Some in their discourse desire rather commendation...and not what should be thought. Some have certain commonplaces and themes wherein they are good, and want variety; 5 'which kind of poverty is for the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...present occasion with arguments ; for it is a dull thing to tire and jade anything too far. LORD BACON. Some in their discourse desire rather commendation...arguments, than of judgment in discerning what is true. LORD BACON. Whereas men have many reasons to persuade, to use them all at once weakeneth them. For... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...suspicion did give a passport to faith; but it ought rather to kindle it to discharge itself. OF DISCOURSE. , and settling upon it from time to time ? commonplaces and themes, wherein they are good, and want variety : which kind of poverty is for the... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...did give a passport to faith ; but it ought rather to kindle it to discharge itself. OF DISCOURSE. SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation...and not what should be thought. Some have certain commonplaces and themes wherein they are good, and want variety; which kind of poverty is for the most... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 324 pages
...man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary, and intermingle Some in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to holde all arguments, then of ludgment in discerning what is true ; as if it were a praise to knowe... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...passport to faith; but it ought rather to kindle it to discharge itself. * XXXII.— OF DISCOURSE. SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation...and not what should be thought. Some have certain common-places and themes, wherein they are good, and want variety ; which kind of poverty is for the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882 - 214 pages
...suspicion did give a passport to faith; but it ought rather to kindle it to discharge itself. OF DISCOURSE. SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation...judgment, in discerning what is true; as if it were a prai.°e to know what might be said, and not what should be thought. Some have certain common places... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 324 pages
...man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary, and intermingle Some in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to holde all arguments, then of Judgment in discerning what is true ; as if it were a praise to known... | |
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SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit in being able to hold all arguments than of judgment in discerning what is true, as if it were a praise to know what might be said and not what should be thought. 
