 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 129by Francis Bacon - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1889 - 298 pages
...For the first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a 185 friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account...dead. Observing our faults in others is sometimes unproper for our case ; but the best receipt (best, I say, to work, 190 and best to take) is the admorition... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 510 pages
...there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty 170 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 corrosive. Reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead. Observing... | |
 | 1890 - 124 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 sometime too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead. Observing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 788 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, sometime, tno piercing and corrosive. Reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead. Observing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 300 pages
...of a friend. Counsel is of two sorts : the one concerning manners. LllL ulliu1 oonoorning bntinesi For the first, the best preservative to Keep the mind...faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a nTan's belfTo" a strict account is a medicine sometime too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 456 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...business : for the first, the best preservative to 20 keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 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 sometime too piercing and corrosive, reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead, observing... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...unprepared heart. Jean Paul. 20 The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. Bovee. Hat and dead . . . but the best receipt (best to work, and best to take) is the admonition of a friend.... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - 1896 - 636 pages
...animadversion f admonitian? EXAMPLES. A is Intolerable when it is administered out of pride or hatred. The best preservative to keep the mind in health Is the faithful of a friend. Open is better than secret love. REPROVE (page 812). QUESTIONS. 1 . What Is it to censure... | |
 | John Leverett Moore - 1898 - 88 pages
...man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. Bacon 45. After these two noble fruits of friendship, peace in the affections and support of the judgment,... | |
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