 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...thought he would mar a good dinner." Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in...continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shews slowness; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, sheweth shallowness... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...thought he would mav a good dinner." Discretion of speech is more than eloquence ; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in...continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shews slowness ; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settied speech, sheweth shallowness... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...thought he would mar a "good dinner." Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeable to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in...continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shews slowness; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, sheweth shallowness... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...he would mar a " good dinner." Discretion of speech is more than eloquence ; and to speak agreeable to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in...continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shews slowness ; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, sheweth shallowness... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...he would mar a - good dinner." Discretion of speech is more than eloquence ; and to speak agreeable to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in...or in good order. A good continued speech, without i good speech of interlocution, shews slowness ; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1831 - 570 pages
...gracious pension only saves the third ! — 1 " A good continued speech (says Bacon in his ' Essays') without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness...that are weakest in the course, are yet nimblest in their turn ; as it is betwixt the greyhound and the hare." If this observation be just, Dr. Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...pension only saves the third ! — , ....•• 1 " A good continued speech (says Bacon in his ' Essays') without a good speech of interlocution , shows slowness;...that are weakest in the course, are yet nimblest in their turn ; as it is betwixt the greyhound and the hare." If this observation be just, Dr. Johnson... | |
 | Arrian - Coursing - 1831 - 332 pages
...covert and so save her life." And a far greater than this translator of Fouilloux has remarked : " We see in beasts, that those that are weakest in the course, are yet nimblest in the turne ; as it is betwixt the greyhound and ihe hare." Darcii Venusini Canes. Scarce inferior to his... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...good dinner." Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with wham we deal, is more than to speak in good words, or in...reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, sho\yeth shallowness ami weakness. As we see in beasts ; those that are weakest in the course, are... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...thought he would mar a good dinner." Discretion of speech is more than eloquence ; and to speak agreeably ad G: B# Zy Oq V $2 , Q | փ QG Xdj .CdX $ M ) Z... +~41߹ qlܯb ^Z Q 5 UܹFV`Ņ rD l x t (E + ) - H # turn : as it is betwixt the greyhound and the hare. To use too many circumstances ere one come to the... | |
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence ; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or in good order. 
