 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...bold persons is, that they never command in chief, but be seconds, and under the direction of others: for in counsel it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them, except they be very great. OF <S>ootiness, anD <£ootmesg of Mature. I TAKE goodness in this sense, the affecting of the weal... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...bold persons is, that they never command in chief, but be seconds, and under the direction of others ; for in counsel it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them, except they be very great. OF GOODNESS, AND GOODNESS OF NATURE. I TAKE goodness in this sense, the affecting of the weal of men,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 292 pages
...Demosthenes ; the first, second, and third thing. 56. Boldness is blind : whereof 'tis ill in counsel, but good in execution. For in counsel it is good to see dangers, in execution not to see them, except they be very great. 57. Without good-nature, man is but a better... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...Demosthenes ; the first, second, and third thing. 56. Boldness is blind : wherefore it is ill in counsel, but good in execution. For in counsel it is good to see dangers ; in execution, not to see them, except they be very great. 57. Without good-nature, man is but a better... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...Demosthenes ; the first, second, and third thing. 56. Boldness is blind : wherefore it is ill in counsel, but good in execution. For in counsel it is good to see dangers ; in execution, not to see them, except they be very great. 57. Without good-nature, man is but a better... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...bold persons is, that they never command in chief, but be seconds, and under the direction of others. For in counsel, it is good to see dangers ; and in...execution not to see them, except they be very great. : XIII. OF GOODNESS, AND GOODNESS OF NATURE. I TAKE goodness in this sense, the affecting of the weal... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...bold persons is, that they never command in chief, but be seconds, and under the direction of others: for in counsel it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them, except they be very great. XIII. OF GOODNESS, AND GOODNESS OF NATURE. I TAKE goodness in this sense, the aflecting of the weal... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...bold persons is, that they never command in chief, but be seconds, and under the direction of others : for in counsel it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them, except they be very great. Xlll. OF GOODNESS, AND GOODNESS OF NATURE. I TAKE goodness in this sense, the affecting of the weal... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...Demosthenes : the first, second, and third thing. 20. Boldness is blind : wherefore it is ill in counsel, but good in execution. For in counsel it is good to see dangers ; in execution, not to see them, except they be very great. 21. Without good-nature, man is but a better... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...Demosthenes : the first, second, and third thing. 20. Boldness is blind : wherefore it is ill in counsel, but good in execution. For in counsel it is good to see dangers ; in execution, not to see them, except they be very great. . 21. Without good-nature, man is but a... | |
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This is well to be weighed, that boldness is ever blind ; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences : therefore it is ill in counsel, good in execution ; so that the right use of bold persons is, that they never command in chief, but be seconds and... 
