 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
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1849 - 260 pages
...Trimdluted ('mm the Gtiiman by UW UAVEN. One volume lUinu. pp. !7',.'. 1'iice 60 CUDU. FRIENDS IN COUNCIL. ' 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,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1849 - 254 pages
...3 3433 07496545 4 FRIENDS IN COUNCIL. " 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,... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...give the occasion ; and agam to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation,...intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, tale* with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest : for it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...the occasion ; and again, to moderate, and pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance. ions of many thin?*' where the waters take the virtue quicker and bettor 212 213 of questions with telling of opinions ; and jest with earnest ; for it is a dull thing to tire, and,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 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... | |
 | 1852 - 526 pages
...preparing this " Series of Headings and Discourse thereon," Bacon's monition has been duly heeded, 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. Accordingly, the interlocutors are heard... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1853 - 294 pages
...CAMBRIDGE : AILIN AMD PABMIAM, I-IUKTEKJ. FRIENDS IN COUNCIL: A SERIES OF READINGS AND DISCOUKSE THEREON. " 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.) - 1853 - 176 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...give the occasion; and again, to moderate, and pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance. whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions,...lieth upon the heart, to oppress it, in a kind of of questions with telling of opinions ; and jest with earnest; for it is a dull thing to tire, and,... | |
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