 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...and jest with earnest; for it is a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade any thing too far. se and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the...We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are (here be some that think their wits have been asleep, except they dart out somewhat that is piquant,... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...defeats its own end, and is only fit to gratify ill-nature.— W. Danby. 236. As for jest, there are certain things which ought to be privileged from it;...of importance, and any case that deserveth pity.— 237. The infirmities of age are not a fit subject for laughter, since they must at last be the portion... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...defeats its own end, and is only fit to gratify ill-nature.— W. Danby. 236. As for jest, there are certain things which ought to be privileged from it;...of importance, and any case that deserveth pity.— Bacon. 237. The infirmities of age are not a fit subject for laughter, since they must at last be the... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...defeats its own end, and is only fit to gratify ill-nature.— W. Danby. 236. As for jest, there are certain things which ought to be privileged from it;...of state, great persons, any man's present business pf importance, and any case that deserveth pity.— Bacon. 237. The infirmities of age are not a fit... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...and jest with earnest ; for 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...is a vein which would be bridled : — ' Farce puer si iinulis, et fortius utere loris.' ! And, generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...and jest with earnest; for it is a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade any thing too far. As for jest, there be certain things which ought to...piquant, and to the quick ; that is a vein which would be bridled:8— " Parce, puer, stimulis, et fortius utere loris." * And, generally, men ought to find... | |
 | Joseph Beaumont - Methodist Church - 1856 - 436 pages
...magnatuni) never failed to regulate Dr. Beaumont's conversation. He says, " As for jest, there be some things which ought to be privileged from it, namely,...present business of importance, and any case that deservcth pity. Yet there be some that think their wits have been asleep except they dart out somewhat... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...and jest with earnest ; for 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...which would be bridled : — ' Farce puer stimulis, et fortius utere loris.'2 And, generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness.... | |
 | England - 1857 - 820 pages
...into the works of Lord Bacon ; and if so, it is a pity that he has forgotten the following passage : " As for jest, there be certain things which ought to...man's present business of importance, and any case which deserveth pity, Tet there be some that think their wits have been asleep except they dart out... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1857 - 818 pages
...number, " Tis all for the beat" As for jest, there are certain things which ought to be privfleged from it ; namely, religion, matters of state, great...business of importance, and any case that deserveth pity. — Bacon. TOE government of man should be the monarchy of reason ; it ia too often a democracy of... | |
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As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it; namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, any man's present business of importance, and any case that deserveth pity. Yet there be some that think their wits have been... 
