 | Philip Dormer Stanhope - 1810 - 456 pages
...strength of mind, and strength of parts, wants neither of them. ' Certaiuly,' says he, ' the ahlest men that ever were have -all had an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity; hut then they were like horses well managed; for they could tell, passing well,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1847 - 492 pages
...man who has strength of mind, and strength 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... | |
 | François duc de La Rochefoucauld - 1851 - 262 pages
...Treacheries and acts of artifice only originate in the want of ability. 127. " Certainly the cleverest 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... | |
 | 1851 - 604 pages
...and admirably illustrated in his Essay on Simulation and Dissimulation : " 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 like horses well managed, for they could tell passing... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1857 - 642 pages
...man who has strength of mind, and strength 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... | |
 | James Abbott (of Queens' coll, Cambr.) - 1864 - 204 pages
...strength of mind, and strength of parts, wants neither of them. Certainly, continues his Lordship, 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 good horses well managed ; for they could tell, passing... | |
 | Montague Bernard - 1868 - 230 pages
...indeed, for the most part, open and manifest in their nature. Bacon's admission — ' Certainly the ablest men that ever were have all had an openness and frankness of dealing and a 'name of certainty and veracity' — applies with all its force to diplomacy. Among the most distinguished names... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1870 - 292 pages
...who has strength of mind, and strength 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... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1872 - 474 pages
...man who has strength of mind, and strength 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 teU, passing... | |
 | Thomas Davies King - 1875 - 202 pages
...open and free natures. Bacon, in his Essay on Simulation and Dissimulation, says:— " Certainly the ablest men that ever were, " have all had an openness and frankness of "dealing, and a name of certainty and vera" city." Now, Shakspere would have been guilty of dissimulation, or rather simulation,... | |
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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... 
