...Dissimulation," he deftly sets out moral issues and pragmatic considerations and concludes: "The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use; and a power to feign if there be no remedy." Sidney examined the whole topic in his...

...one of the most principal instruments of action, which is trust and belief.' 'The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy. ' Evidently Bacon's observations relate...

...judged that all the main forms of falsehood had their proper use and setting: "The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use; and a power to feign if there be no remedy."169 Bacon's predominantly pragmatic sensibility...

...Therefore set it down, that an habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. ... The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy. Sir Walter Raleigh (Ralegh), with reasons...

...always complicated and he openly advised cultivating the trait of secretiveness: "The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy."38 There is a pleased matter-of-factness...

...representational latitude. Bacon in his essay "Of Simulation and Dissimulation" asserts, "The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use; and a power to feign if there be no remedy" (6.389). 40. Philo, Loeb Classical Library,...

...one of the most principal instruments for action; which is trust and belief.3 The best composition4 and temperature* is to have openness in fame and opinion;* secrecy in habit;5 dissimulation in seasonable use;6 and a power to feign, if there be no remedy. 7. OF PARENTS...

...concludes his essay "Of Simulation and Dissimulation" with the recommendation that "The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy." The very fact that the praise of cunning,...

...fault in a case of necessity; being of the same opinion with the Lord Bacon that 'the best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in seasonable use, and a power to feign if there be no remedy' (Essay vi. p. 31). Therefore he kept fair...

...other than one is -» Bacon recommends a tactical use of these three degrees: "The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy."10 — » This is of course about an external...