Characters Or the Manners of the Age With the Moral Characters of Theophrast
Characters Or the Manners of the Age With the Moral Characters of Theophrast
Jean De La Bruyre
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Sometimes he fpeaks firft, the bet- r to qjfeover the Opppfitions and Contradictions, Intjigues and Cabals of Foreign Minilters, upon pofi ions he. Has advanc*2 5 and, to take his es from their Anfwers. At another meet- he ftay. S till the laft, that he may be furenot lofo his labour ^ he can then be more exaft, having nicely obierv'd every thing that may 9 femceable to his Mailer or his Allies. He know what 'to ask, and what he can obtain ^ heknojl how to be clear and expreiTive, or obfeure af...l ambiguous \ he can nfe equivocal words and turr which he can re more or lefs forcible, ash intereft or occ s require. Heaskslittlebecau he won't gr ;h or his requefts are large, th] lie^nay be 1 ittle. He defrres fmall thinj he pretends to be of no value, that they ma not hinder hirr greater. He avoids the gainin v of an imporrai nt at firft, if it's like to hinder him of feveral, which, tho in themfelves of lefs value, yet u : 3 exceed the other. His demands are extravagant, vvith'defign to be deny'd, that he in; e furnifh'd with a juft excufe for refufing e.
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