 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 - Page 161900Full view - About this book
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...the going softly by one that cannot well see. Certainly the ablest men that ever were have had all au 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 tc stop or turn... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...the going softly by one that cannot well see. Certainly the ablest men tfcil 2fi4 205 tmwerc, have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity ; t«t then they were like horses well managed j for >hfT could tell passing well when to stop or turn... | |
 | François duc de La Rochefoucauld - 1851 - 262 pages
...only originate in the want of ability. 127. " Certainly the cleverest 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 turn,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...; like the going softly by one that cannot well see. Certainly the ablest men that e»er were, have that sue. " There be," saith the Scripture, " that turn judgment into wormwood ;" ; but then they were like horses well managed; for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn... | |
 | 1856 - 668 pages
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 590 pages
...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 - 1856 - 406 pages
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 594 pages
...daring towards God and a coward towards man ; he remarks that 1 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...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,... | |
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