 Certainly the ablest men that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity: but then they were like horses well managed, for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn; and at such times when...  The Quarterly Review - Page 3011856Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pages
...wariest way in general, like the going softly by one that cannot well see. Certainly, the ablest men that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity : but then they were like horses well managed, for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 474 pages
...softly by one i Tac. Ann. v. 1. 2 Tac. Hist. ii. 76. that cannot well see. Certainly, the ablest men that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity : but then they were like horses well managed, for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...wariest way in general, like the going softly by one that cannot well see. Certainly the ablest men that ever were have had all an openness and frankness...of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity. But then they were like horses well managed ; for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn:... | |
 | John Calvin Reed - Agency (Law) - 1885 - 476 pages
...the best of men in the best of cases. Remember the words of Bacon : — " Certainly, the ablest men that ever were have had all an openness and frankness of dealing and a name of certainty and veracity ; but then they were like horses well managed, for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - England - 1885 - 562 pages
...useless folly of a general habit of deception : " Certainly the ablest men that ever were, have all had an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity. But then they were like horses well managed, for they could tell passing well when to stop and turn... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1890 - 826 pages
...wariest way in general ; like the going softly, by one that cannot well see. Certainly the ablest men that ever were have had all an openness and frankness...of dealing ; and a name of certainty and veracity ; but then they were like horses well managed ; for they could tell passing well ii'hf n to stop or... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 pages
...wariest way in general, like the going softly by one that cannot well see. Certainly the ablest men that ever were have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity ; but then they were like horses wellmanaged, for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1888 - 336 pages
...wariest way in general, like the going softly by one that cannot well see. Certainly the ablest men that ever were have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity ; but then they were like horses wellmanaged, for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn.... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 346 pages
...of parts wants neither of them. " Certainly," says he, " the ablest men that ever were have all had an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity ; but then they were like horses well managed, for they could tell, passing well, when to stop or turn;... | |
 | 1888 - 102 pages
...of parts, wants neither of them. "Certainly," says he, "the ablest men that ever were have all had an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity; but, then, they were like horses well managed, for they could tell, passing well, when to stop, or... | |
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