 It is good, in discourse and speech of conversation, to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest: for it is a dull thing to tire, and, as...  Harriet Martineau's Autobiography ... - Page 499by Harriet Martineau - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...give the occasion; and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation,...occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest: for it is a dull thing to tire, and as... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...give the occasion, and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse and speech of conversation...occasion with arguments; tales with reasons; asking of questions with telling of opinions ; and jest with earnest : for it is a dull thing to tire, and,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...give the occasion ; and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation,...occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions* and jest with earnest : for it is a . dull thing to tire, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...give the occasion, and again, to moderate and pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance. It is good, in discourse and speech of conversation,...occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest : for it is a dull thing to tire, and,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...give the occasion, and again, to moderate and pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance. It is good, in discourse and speech of conversation,...occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest : for it is a dull thing to tire, and,... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...discourse and speech of conversation (says his Lordship, in the quaint but expressive language of his age) to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments; tales with reasons ; asking of questions with telling of opinions ; and jest with earnest." In this compilation are contained several... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...the occasion ; and again, to moderate, arid pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse and speech of conversation...occasion with arguments ; tales with reasons ; asking of questions with telling of opinions ; and jest with earnest ; for it is a dull thing to tire, and,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...give the occasion; and again to moderate and pass to some what «lse, for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation,...occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest: for it is a dull thing to tire, and as... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pages
...give 'the occasion ; and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation,...occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest : for it is a dull thing to tire, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...give the occasion ; and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation,...of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reason, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest: for it is a dull thing... | |
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