 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 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 common-places and themes, wherein they are good, and want variety ; which kind of poverty is for the... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of )NbO common-places and themes, wherein they are good, and want variety ; which kind of poverty is for the... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of ed by all his readers, when he brings in Bacchus and Christ into the same ought be said, and not what should be thought : some have certain commonplaces and themes, wherein... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pages
...in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to holde all arguments, then of Judgment in discerning what is true ; as if it were a praise to knowe what might be saide, and not what should be thought ; some haue certaine common places, and theames,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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 common-places and themes, wherein they are good, and want variety : which kind of poverty is for the... | |
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...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...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 most... | |
 | Edwin Troxell Freedley - Business - 1878 - 384 pages
...censure as being men 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." [The Parliament of Great Britain, though not enlightened, and far from perfect, has points of superiority... | |
 | John Baillie - Women - 1878 - 462 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, he adds, to know what might be said and not what should be thought. Our friend was too earnest and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...Discourse1 desire rather commendation of wit,2 in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment,3 in discerning what is true ; as if it were a praise...and not what should be thought. Some have certain common-places and themes,4 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. 
