 | 1836 - 694 pages
...but superficial, and rather the virtue of a player, should be placed so high above those other noble parts of invention, elocution, and the rest ; nay...foolish part of men's minds is taken, are most potent. Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business: What first? Boldness: What second and third?... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...but superficial, and rather the virtue of a player, should be placed so high above those other noble parts of invention, elocution, and the rest : nay...foolish part of men's minds is taken, are most potent. Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business ; what first ? — Boldness. What second and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken, are most potent. Wonderful like tself simply, without fallacy or accident. Neither is that pleasure ? — Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness, far inferior to other parts.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...but superficial, and rather the virtue of a player, should be placed so high above those other noble parts of invention, elocution, and the rest ; nay...foolish part of men's minds is taken are most potent. Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business ; what first? — boldness; what second and... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - 386 pages
...but superficial, and rather the virtue of a player, should be placed so high above those other noble parts of invention, elocution , and the rest, nay, almost alone, as if it were all in all. " But, he continues, " the reason is plain. There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...but superficial, and rather the virtue of a player, should be placed so high above those other noble parts of invention, elocution, and the rest ; nay,...foolish part of men's minds is taken are most potent. Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business. What first? Boldness. * He would have been... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...hut superficial, and rather the virtue of a player, should he placed so high ahove those other nohle parts of invention, elocution, and the rest ; nay,...fool than of the wise, and therefore those faculties hy which the foolish pavt of men's minds is taken are most potent. Wonderful like is the case of holdness... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...but superficial, and rather the virtue of a player, should be placed so high above those other noble parts of invention, elocution, and the rest ; nay,...of the fool than of the wise, and therefore those faculti£s.by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken are mostjxjtejt. Wonderful like is the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...he placed so high ahove those other nohle parts of invention, elocution, and the rest; nay, ilmoft alone, as if it were all in all. But the reason is...in human nature generally more of the fool than of tie mise, and therefore those faculties hy which the foolish part •' men's minds is taken are most... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1846 - 946 pages
...that she was an angel ! — CHAPTER IV. There is in human nature, generally, more of the fool than wise ; and therefore those faculties by which the...foolish part of men's minds is taken, are most potent. — BACON. FORTUNE is said to favour the bold : and the blind goddess certainly exerted herself to... | |
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He said it that knew it best and had by nature himself no advantage in that he commended. A strange thing, that that part of an orator which is but superficial, and rather the virtue of a player, should be placed so high above those other noble parts... 
