... FRIENDS IN COUNCIL IN TWO VOLUMES VOL I J IIM 'It is good, in Discourse, and Speech of Conversation,...and• intermingle Speech of the present Occasion with Argu* ments j Tales with Reasons : Asking of Questions, with Tell' ing of Opinions ; and Jest with...

...book holds to his principle of the impolicy of 'jading anything too far," and thinks with Bacon that ' it is good, in discourse and speech of conversation,...with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest.' The writer likewise holds by tliat system which his own practice has done so much to recommend —...

...sentences of it :— The honourablest part of talk is to give the occasion, and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance....tire, and, as we say now, to jade any thing too far as we see in beasts, that those that are weakest in the course are yet nimblest in the turn, as it is...

...perceived, ridiculous. The honourablest part of talk is to give the occasion ; and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance....to tire, and, as we say now, to jade, any thing too far.2 As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it ; namely, religion,...

...extremes. Nothing can be spoken that hath not been spoken, for there is nothing new under the sun. " It is, in discourse and speech of conversation, to vary and...is a dull thing to tire, and as we say now, to jade with anything too far. It is difficult to say what Pleasure means. Pleasure bears a different sense...

...observes : " The honourablest part of the talk is to give the occasion ; and again, to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance....discourse and speech of conversation, to vary, and to intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions...

...perceived, ridiculous. The honourablest part of the talk is to give the occasion ; and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance....it is a dull thing to tire, and as we say now, to jade1 anything too far. As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it —...

...book holds to his principle of the impolicy of 'jading anything too far,' and thinks with Bacon that 4 it is good, in discourse and speech of conversation,...questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest/ The writer likewise holds by that system which his own practice has done so much to recommend — of...

...language used must be such as precisely imparts the ideas to be transferred. " It is," let it be granted, "good in discourse and speech of conversation, to...with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest."* But it is not the less certain that all true knowledge — if transferred from mind to mind — begins...

...perceived, ridiculous. The honourablest part of talk is to give the occasion ; and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance....to tire, and, as we say now, to jade, any thing too far.2 As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from, it ; namely, religion,...