 Certainly the ablest men that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity: but then they were like horses well managed, for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn; and at such times when...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 153edited by - 1857Full view - About this book
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 pages
...zealous to transmit you some account of them. FOR THE ANTHOLOGY. REMARKER, No. 45. " The ablest men, that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity ; but then, they were like horses, well managed, for they could tell passing- well, when to stop."... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope - Philosophy, English - 1810 - 456 pages
...parts, wants neither of them. ' Certaiuly,' says he, ' the ahlest men that ever were have -all had an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity; hut then they were like horses well managed; for they could tell, passing well, when to stop, urturu;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...weariest way in general, like the going softly by one that cannot well see. Certainly the ablest men that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness...of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity: but then they were like horses well managed, for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...wariest way in general, like the going softly by one that cannot well see. Certainly the ablest men that ever were have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity : but then they were like horses well managed, for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...wariest way in general ; like the going softly by one that cannot well see. Certainly the ablest men that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity : but then they were like horses, well managed ; for they could tell passing well, when to stop or... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...wariest way in general ; like the going softly by one that cannot well see. Certainly the ablest men that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity : but then they were like horses, well managed ; for they could tell passing well, when to stop or... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...wariest way in general ; like the going softly by one that cannot well see. Certainly the ablest men that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity ; but then they were like horses well managed ; for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...going softly by one that cannot well see. /Certainly the ablest men that ever were, have had all i an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity ; but then they were like horses well managed ; for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...wariest way, in general, like the going softly by one that cannot well see. Certainly the ablest men that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness...of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity: but then they were like horses well managed, for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn;... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...wariest way in general, like the going softly'by one that cannot well see. Certainly tltc ablest men that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity : but then they were like horses well managed, for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn... | |
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