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Francis Bacon. OF CUNNING . We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wis- dom ; and , certainly , there is a great difference between a cunning man and a wise man , not only in point of honesty , but in point of abi- lity . There be ...
Francis Bacon. OF CUNNING . We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wis- dom ; and , certainly , there is a great difference between a cunning man and a wise man , not only in point of honesty , but in point of abi- lity . There be ...
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Francis Bacon. It is a point of cunning to wait upon him with whom you speak with your eye , as the Jesuits give it in precept ; for there be many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances : yet this would be done ...
Francis Bacon. It is a point of cunning to wait upon him with whom you speak with your eye , as the Jesuits give it in precept ; for there be many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances : yet this would be done ...
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... point of cunning to borrow the name of the world ; as to say , " The world says , " or , " There is a speech abroad . " I knew one that , when he wrote a letter , he would put that which was most material in the postscript , as if it ...
... point of cunning to borrow the name of the world ; as to say , " The world says , " or , " There is a speech abroad . " I knew one that , when he wrote a letter , he would put that which was most material in the postscript , as if it ...
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... point of cunning to let fall those words in a man's own name which he would have another man learn and use , and thereupon take advantage . I knew two that were com- petitors for the secretary's place in queen Eli- zabeth's time , and ...
... point of cunning to let fall those words in a man's own name which he would have another man learn and use , and thereupon take advantage . I knew two that were com- petitors for the secretary's place in queen Eli- zabeth's time , and ...
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... cunning which we in England call " The turning of the cat in the pan ; " which is , when that which a man says to ... point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words 108.
... cunning which we in England call " The turning of the cat in the pan ; " which is , when that which a man says to ... point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words 108.
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