 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...  Wisconsin Journal of Education - Seite 161900Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1857 - 602 Seiten
...daring towards God and a coward towards man ; he remarks that " the ablest persons that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity ;" he calls " dissimulation a faint kind :of policy," and holds simulation to be still " less politic... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 Seiten
...daring towards God and a coward towards man ; he remarks that " the ablest persons that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity ;" he calls " dissimulation a faint kind of policy," and holds simulation to be still " less politic... | |
 | 1857 - 652 Seiten
...sort of politicians that are the greatest dissembler!, Certainly, the ablest men that ever were, have all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity There be three disadvantages of simulation ; the first, that simulation and dissimulation commonly... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1857 - 642 Seiten
...of parts, wants neither of them. ' Certainly (says he) the ablest men that ever were, have all had 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 - 1858 - 790 Seiten
...; 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... | |
 | Robert South - 1859 - 602 Seiten
...this the judgment of as great an English author as ever wrote, with great confidence affirming, "that the ablest men that ever were, had all an openness and frankness of dealing; and that, if at any time such did dissemble, their dissimulation took effect, merely in the strength of... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | James Abbott (of Queens' coll, Cambr.) - 1864 - 204 Seiten
...wants neither of them. Certainly, continues his Lordship, the ablest men that ever were, have all had an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity ; but then they were like good horses well managed ; for they could tell, passing well, when to stop,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 Seiten
...like the going softly by one that cannot well see. Certainly the ablest men [4] 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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