 The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion ; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy.  The Harvard Classics - Seite 201909Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 Seiten
...most principal instruments for action, which is trust and belief. The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion ; secrecy...use, and a power to feign, if there be no remedy. OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN. THE joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears ; they cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 Seiten
...principal instruments for action ; which is trust and belief. The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion; secrecy...nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 Seiten
...principal instruments for action ; which is trust and belief. The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion; secrecy...secret ; and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot ntter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1839 - 544 Seiten
...felicity, I have ever found a solace. My trials, however, have been many and severe. Lord Bacon says, " the joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs...nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter : they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 Seiten
...most principal instruments for action, which is trust and belief. The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion ; secrecy...CHILDREN. THE joys of parents are secret, and so are their j griefs and fears ; they cannot utter the one, • uor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten... | |
 | William Bradford Homer, Edwards Amasa Park - 1842 - 430 Seiten
...He was too proud to make any use of Lord Bacon's maxim, that " the best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in...use, and a power to feign if there be no remedy." He was frank because he respected himself, but whenever he found that his self-esteem was becoming... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 938 Seiten
...divided ; but it has now become fixed, and that on the side of metaphysical propriety. Bacon says — " The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor will they mi! utter the other." .Shakepeare says — " Bo nul too tame ntillar." And again, •' Nor... | |
 | Catherine Grace Frances Gore - 1843 - 988 Seiten
...pleasure. OR, COURT AND CITY. 267 CHAPTER Vin. The best composition and temperature (for worldly snccess) is to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in...seasonable use, and a power to feign if there be no remedy. BACON. Though the morning was one of the brightest of winter mornings, and his hack one of the best... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction New Series VOL.IV - 1843 - 458 Seiten
...Crown. — Life of the Right Hon. James Oswald. Honesty not the best PoRcy — The best temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy...seasonable use, and a power to feign if there be no remedy. — Lurd Baeon. ßuitdinys in S1nini. — From the Bidassoa as far as Cadiz one does not find a single... | |
 | 1844 - 836 Seiten
...he was asked why he did not rise ? hia answer was — " truth, mon, I see n.ie motive for rising." PARENTS AND CHILDREN. — The joys of parents are...griefs and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter ; they increase... | |
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