 It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest: for it is a dull thing to tire, and as...  The book of the Axeby George Philip R. Pulman - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...to moderate and pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse and speech of conversation, to vary and intermingle speech...is a dull thing to tire, and as we say now, to jade anything too far. As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it ; namely,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1883 - 236 pages
...to moderate and pass to somewhat else; for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary, and intermingle speech...is a dull thing to tire, and as we say now, to jade anything too far. As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it; namely,... | |
 | Casimir Stanislas Arpentigny - Hand - 1889 - 474 pages
...Desbarrolles has remarked [vide p. 420], that our author, being of Bacon's opinion that " it is good to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion...with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest," betrays a continual tendency to fly off at a tangent and talk delightfully and interestingly about... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...to moderate, and pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse and en will cease to be affected. A great many of the...in their early infancy, must of course depend upo anything too far. As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it; namely,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 pages
...to moderate and pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse and speech of conversation to vary and intermingle speech...arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions igo OF DISCOURSE. with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest ; for it is a dull thing to tire,... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - Authors, English - 1888 - 306 pages
...to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary and intermingle speech...asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest wich earnest: *" Mistrust justifies infidelity, or dissolves the obligation of fidelity." Italian proverbs... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1888 - 336 pages
...to give the occasion, and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else ; it is good to vary, and mix speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales...questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest ; but some things are privileged from jest — namely, religion, matters of State, great persons, all... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1890 - 516 pages
...moderate and to pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance. It is good, in discourse and speech of conversation, to*> vary and intermingle...is a dull thing to tire, and as we say now, to jade 3 anything too far. As for jest, there be certain things which oughts' to be privileged from it; namely,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1890 - 510 pages
...and pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance. It is good, in discourse aud speech of 10 conversation, to vary and intermingle speech of the...questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest : i for it is a dull thing to tire, and as we say now, to jade j any thing too far. As for jest, there... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1891 - 466 pages
...2 A censure of this nature has been applied by some to Dr. Johnson, and possibly with some reason. intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments,...a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade any tiling too far. <ls for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it; namely,... | |
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