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" 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... "
The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 100
edited by - 1809
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 22

1851 - 604 pages
..." Certainly the cleverest men that ever were have all had an openness and frankness of dealing, and name of certainty and veracity ; but then they were...managed, for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn, and at such times when they thought the case required dissimulation, if then they used it,...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral ; And, Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...cannot well fee. Certainly the ableft Men, that ever were, have had all an Opennefsj and Franknefs of dealing ; and a name of Certainty, and Veracity ; but then they were like Horfes, well managed ; for they could tell paffing well, when to ftop, or turn : And at fuch times,...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...the safest and 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...managed ; for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn : and at such times when they thought the case indeed required dissimulation, if then they...
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Works, Including His Letters to His Son, &c: To which is Prefixed an ...

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...wants neither of them. ' Certainly (says he) the ablest men that ever were, have all had an open. ness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty...; for they could tell, passing well, when to stop or turn ; and at such times, when they thought the case indeed required some dissimulation, if then...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...in general ; like the going softly by one that cannot well see. Certainly the ablest men that e»er or parties that sue. " There be," saith the Scripture,...vinegar : for injustice maketh it bitter, and del or turn : and at such times, when they thought the case indeed required dissimulation, if then they...
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...the safest and 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...managed, for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn, and at such times when they thought the 1 Simulation. The pretending that to be which a not....
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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...the safest and 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...managed, for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn ; and at such times, when they thought the case indeed required dissimulation, if then they...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 99

1856 - 594 pages
...that the liar is daring towards God and a coward towards man ; he remarks that 1 the ablest persons that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness of dealing and a name of certainty and veracity ;' he calls ' dissimulation a faint kind of policy/ and holds simulation to be still ' less politic...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 99

1856 - 590 pages
...that the liar is daring towards God and a coward towards man ; he remarks that ' the ablest persons that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness of dealing and a name of certainty and veracity ;' he calls ' dissimulation a faint kind of policy,' and holds simulation to be still ' less politic...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 99

1856 - 668 pages
...that tlic liar is daring towards God and a coward towards man ; he remarks that ' the ablest persons that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness of dealing and a name of certainty and veracity ;' he calls ' dissimulation a faint kind of policy,' and holds simulation to be still 'less politic...
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