 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 σελίδες
...for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. 60. 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 σελίδες
...for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. O0« OF DISCOURSE. Some in their discourse desire rather commendation...arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is trucji as if it were a praise to know what might be said, and not what should be thought. Some have... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1872 - 368 σελίδες
...conscience of humanity afterwards to judge them, and pity to detest them. — Lamartine. 2. S§me, in their discourse, desire rather commendation of...what is true ; as if it were a praise to know what znight be said, and not what should be thought. — Bacon. 3. If all the means of education which are... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 σελίδες
...is more pregnant of direction than an indefinite, as ashes arc more generative than dust. DISCOURSE. commonplaces and themes wherein they are good, and want variety: which kind of poverty is for the most... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 σελίδες
...compare Macbeth, i. 3, ' That, trusted home, might yet enkindle you unto the crown.' XXXII. OF DISCOURSE. Some in their discourse desire rather commendation...and not what should be thought. Some have certain common-places2 and themes, wherein they are good, and want variety ; 3 which kind of poverty is for... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1873 - 382 σελίδες
...is the con. science of humanity afterwards to judge them, and pity to detest them. — Lamartine. 2. Some, in their discourse, desire rather commendation...praise to know what might be said, and not what should La thought. — Bacon. 3. If all tho means of education which are scattered over the world, and if... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1873 - 366 σελίδες
...is the conscience of humanity afterwards to judge them, and pity to detest them. — Lamartine. 2. Some, in their discourse, desire rather commendation...of judgment in discerning what is true ; as if it we|-ea praise to know \vhat might bo said, and not what chould be thought. — Bacon. 3. If all tho... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 σελίδες
...men of base natures ; for they, if they find themselves onoe suspected will never be true. DISCOURSE. SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation...being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment in discovering what is true ; as if it were a praise to know what might be said, and not what should be... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1875 - 208 σελίδες
...conversation lets things into the mind more particularly than reading can. — Dr. T. Fuller. 602. Some in their discourse desire rather commendation...discerning what is true; as if it were a praise to know lohat might be said, and not what should be thought. Some have certain common places and themes, wherein... | |
 | 1872 - 554 σελίδες
...shall the circling cycles fill, With the grandeur, never fading, of one royal human will! ASPIRANT. SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation...judgment in discerning what is true ; as if it were praise to know what might be said, and not what should be thought. — Bacon. HE who dares to speak... | |
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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. 
