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" Counsel is of two sorts; the one concerning manners, the other concerning business : for the first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health, is the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine... "
The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 129
by Francis Bacon - 1815
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 2

Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one than many. Massinger. DCCCCLXX. Counsel is of two sorts, the one concerning manners, the other...sometimes too piercing and corrosive; reading good books1of morality is a little flat and dead; observmg our faults in others is sometimes nnproper for...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 1, Volume 11

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 416 pages
...faalthful airs do appear by habitation and proofs, that differ not in smell from other airs. Bacon. The best preservative to keep the mind in health, is the faithful admonition of a friend. Id. He asked leave to begin two healths : the first was w> the king's mistrei*. and the second to his...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science ..., Volume 11

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 pages
...by habitation and proofs, that differ not in smell from other airs. Bacon. The best preservative 10 keep the mind in health, is the faithful admonition of a friend. Id. He aAked leave to begin two healths : the first was to the king's mistress, and the second to his...
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Moral, Economical, and Political Essays

Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...there is no s«ch remedy against flattery i/t' a man's self as the liberty of a friend. Counsel is of two sorts ; the one concerning manners, the other...in others is sometimes improper for our case ; but -he best receipt (best I say to work and best to take) is the admonition of a friend. It is a strange...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self, as the liberty of a friend. Counsel is th no pillars but his sacred will. This earth, as...mass : But upon his rebuke away they fled, And then a man's self to a strict account, is a medicine sometimes too piercing and corrosive. Reading good...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. Counsel is merry. Rank misers now do sparing U the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account, is a medicine...
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A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...uud there is no such remedy against flattery t»ca man's self as the liberty of a friend. Coupsel is of two sorts ; the one concerning manners, the other...corrosive ; reading good books of morality is a little ?it and dead; observing our faults in others is sometimes improper for our case ; but Jie best receipt...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. Counsel is s sometime« too piercing and corrosive ; reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead ;...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...other concerning business : for the first, the best preservative 4o keep the mind in health is фе OW*<+<,<-< 4 U U RUU%W à meétcine sometimes too piercing and corrosive ; reading good books of morality is a little flat...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, with notes by A. Spiers

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. Counsel is of two sorts ; the one concerning manners, the other...of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometime4 too piercing and corrosive; reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead. Observing...
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