 | Edwin Troxell FREEDLY - Business - 1853 - 370 pages
...unquestionable testimony, of desiring " rather commendation of wit in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment in discerning what is true, as if it were...what might be said, and not what should be thought." But these men also have their place and their duties to discharge as good citizens ;. these are, to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of han to have others go beyond me again ; which may...propounded my opinions naked and unarmed, not see common-places and themes, wherein they are good, and want variety : which kind of poverty is for the... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is true ; as if it were...most part tedious, and, when it is once perceived, ridiculous.—Bacon. 558. Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons—sometimes... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is true; as if it were...most part tedious, and, when it is once perceived, ridiculous.—Bacon. 558. Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons—sometimes... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is true; as if it were...to know what might be said, and not what should be tlwught. Some have certain common places and themes, wherein they are good, and want variety; which... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is true ; as if it were...a praise to know what might be said, and not what sliould be tliought. Some have certain common places and, themes, wherein they are good, and want variety... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is true; as if it were...and not what should be thought. Some have certain commonplaces and themes, wherein they are good, and want variety; which kind of poverty is for the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments,1 than of judgment, in discerning what is true ; as if it were...and not what should be thought. Some have certain commonplaces and themes, wherein they are good, and want variety ; which kind of poverty is for the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1858 - 812 pages
...in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is true ; as if it were...places and themes wherein they are good, and want variety1; which kind of poverty is for the most part tedious, and when it is once perceived, ridiculous.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is true ; as if it were...and not what should be thought. Some have certain commonplaces and themes, wherein they are good, and want variety; which kind of poverty is for the... | |
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DISCOURSE. SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is true ; as if it were a praise to know what might be said, and not what should be thought. 
