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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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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 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...the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a 185 friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too piercing and...
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The works of lord Bacon, moral and historical, with a brief memoir of the ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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...is the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and religious works

Francis Bacon - 1877 - 1014 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...preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admo nition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine, sometime, too...
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The essays, i-(lviii) or, Counsels civil and moral of Francis lord ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 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...dead; observing our faults in others is sometimes unproper for our case; but the best receipt (best I say to work and best to take) is the admonition...
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The Essays (I-LVIII) Or, Counsels Civil and Moral of Francis, Lord Verulam ...

Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 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...dead ; observing our faults in others is sometimes unproper for our case ; but the best receipt (best I say to work and best to take) is the admonition...
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott. Text only, with ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 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...the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a 185 friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too piercing and...
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Masterpieces of English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...there is no such remedy against flattery of a ifc, 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 sometime too piercing and corro- '65 sive, reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead,...
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Text-book of Prose from Burke, Webster, and Bacon: With Notes, and Sketches ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 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...self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too 1 That is, like tapestries, opened and spread out. Many of the tapestries or hangings formerly used...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

1881 - 578 pages
...and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self, as the liberty of a friend Counsel is or the first day or two I felt stunned, overwhelmed....wandered about, thinking I was happy, and knowing that a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books...
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Bacon's Essays, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 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...the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a 185 friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too piercing and...
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