 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
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 578 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 - 1909 - 360 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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 572 pages
...faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine, sometime, too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books of...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... | |
 | 1909 - 236 pages
...the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. Softening harsh words in friendship's gentle tone. The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. Theodon Munger "On the Threshold" Oliver Wendell Holmes George Eliot Richard Sheridan Proberba Shelley... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 pages
...and there is no such remedy agninst flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. Counsel is ass, Grieving, sometime too piercing and corrosive. Beading good books of morality is a little flat and dead. Observing... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pages
...and there is no such remedy again?t flattery of a man's self, as the liberty of a friend. Counsel is led, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin graced...shall be laid as low; Nor think to die dejects rny l sometime, too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead. Observing... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 pages
...and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self, as the liberty of a friend. Counsel is uated and deserted lie, As ' they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature sometime, too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead. Observing... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - 1916 - 540 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... | |
 | Roger Martin Lucey - 1918 - 244 pages
...extreme absurdities many do commit for want of a friend to tell them of them." Hi« recipe for keeping the mind in health is " the faithful admonition of a friend." The advice holds good in public and private affairs alike. In ten minutes' talk with a friend who brings... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 492 pages
...and there is no such remedy against flaftery 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... | |
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