 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
 | Lisa Jardine - Science - 1974 - 300 pages
...general [and dissemble]; 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.... | |
 | Bernhard König - Romance literature - 1990 - 478 pages
...simulatore, sarebbe piü facilmente creduto alle arti tue"; F. Bacon, aa OS 17: "Certainly the ablest men that ever were have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity [. . .]; and at such times when they thought the case indeed required dissimulation, if then they used... | |
 | Bernhard König - Romance literature - 1990 - 478 pages
...simulatore, sarebbe piü facilmente creduto alle arti tue"; F. Bacon, aaO S. 17: "Certainly the ablest men that ever were have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certamty and veracity [...]; and at such times when they thought the case indeed required dissimulation,... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...therefore it is the weaker sort of politics that are the great dissemblers. '72 '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;... | |
 | Leon Harold Craig - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 482 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;... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 800 pages
...safest option, it is merely one of the choices open to the more able: Certainly the ablest men that were have had all an openness and frankness of dealing; and a name of certainty and veracity; but ... at such times when they thought the case indeed required dissimulation, if then they used it,... | |
 | Tod E. Jones - Philosophy - 2005 - 180 pages
...Your unworthy Friend: ANTH. TUCKNEY. Cambridge; Sept. 15, 1651. Notes 1. "Certainly the ablest men that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness...of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity" (Francis Bacon, Essays §6, edited with annotations by Richard Whately, 5th ed. [London: John W. Parker... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - Congregational churches - 1875 - 780 pages
...it : therefore, it is the weaker sort of politicians that are the great dissemblers. The ablest men that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness...of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity. Love. — Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and... | |
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