| Methodist Church - 1833 - 516 pages
...same opinion with the Lord Bacon, who, was not so precise as learned — " that the best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in seasonable use, and a power to feign if there be no remedy." He therefore kept fair with all, saving... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...one of the most principal instruments for action ; which is trust and belief. The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use ; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy. VII. OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN. The joys... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...of one of the most principal instruments for action, which is trust and belief. The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion ; secrecy in habit ; dissimulation in seasonable use ; and a power to feign if there be no remedy. VII.— OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN. THE joys... | |
| William Bradford Homer, Edwards Amasa Park - Congregational churches - 1842 - 434 pages
...was too proud to make any use of Lord Bacon's maxim, that " the best composition and tern- \ perature is to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in seasonable use, and a power to feign if there be no remedy." He was frank because he respected himself,... | |
| The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction New Series VOL.IV - 1843 - 458 pages
...officer of the Crown. — Life of the Right Hon. James Oswald. Honesty not the best PoRcy — The best temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in seasonable use, and a power to feign if there be no remedy. — Lurd Baeon. ßuitdinys in S1nini. —... | |
| Catherine Grace Frances Gore - 1843 - 988 pages
...pleasure. OR, COURT AND CITY. 267 CHAPTER Vin. The best composition and temperature (for worldly snccess) is to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in seasonable use, and a power to feign if there be no remedy. BACON. Though the morning was one of the... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...of one of the most principal instruments for action, which is trust and belief. The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in seasonable use, and a power to feign if there be no remedy. Of the Seventh Essay, entitled ' Of Parents... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...of one of the most principal instruments for action, which is trust and helief. The hest composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in hahit, dissimulation in seasonahle use, and a power to feign if there he no remedy. Of the Seventh... | |
| Húglí college - 1848 - 220 pages
...man industriously and expressly feigns and pretends to be that he is not." (6) " The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion ; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use ; and a power to feign if there be no remedy." (c) " The Master of superstition is the... | |
| Bengal (India) - 1848 - 520 pages
...man industriously and expressly feigns and pretends to be that he is not." (6) " The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use ; and a power to feign if there be no remedy." (c) " The Master of superstition is the... | |
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