 | William Blake - 1983 - 628 pages
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 | Anne Drury Hall - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 217 pages
...not to the party loved, but to the loved most of all, except the love be reciproque" ("Of Love," 69); "A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness" ("Of Discourse," 133; emphasis mine throughout). From the resulting compression. Bacon gains intellectual... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...See abo EXPLORATION. DISCRETION 1 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. FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, 'Of Discourse" (1597-1625).... | |
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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. 
