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" Pythagoras is dark, but true, " cor ne edito," — " eat not the heart." Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto, are cannibals of their own hearts: but one thing is most admirable, wherewith I... "
The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant ... - Page 103
by Francis Bacon - 1818 - 290 pages
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George Selwyn and His Contemporaries: With Memoirs and Notes, Volume 3

John Heneage Jesse - 1844 - 414 pages
...envied crozier. Adieu, my dear George ! Lord Bacon says that the first fruit of friendship (which is the communicating of a man's self to his friend) works...effects — for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in half. Remember this adage. Fear not to pour out yourself copiously to me, nor think that my silence...
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Bacon: His Writings and His Philosophy

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...the comfort of friendship. . . . I The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but trua — ' Cor ne edtto ' (Eat not the heart). Certainly if a man would give...is most admirable (wherewith I will conclude this first-fruit of friendship), which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works —...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...yet all these could not supply the comfort of friendship. . . . The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true — ' Cor ne edito ' (Eat not the heart)....are cannibals of their own hearts. But one thing is nnwt admirable (wherewith I will conclude this first-fruit of friendship), which is, that this communicating...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...all these could not supply the comfort of friendship. . . . The parahle of Pythagoras is dark, hut true — ' Cor ne edito ' (Eat not the heart). Certainly...those that want friends to open themselves unto, are cannihals of their own hearts. But one thing is most admirahle (wherewith I will conclude this first-fruit...
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Bacon; His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...supply the comfort of friendship. . . . The parahle of Pythagoras is dark, hut true—'Corneedito' (Eat not the heart). Certainly if a man would give...those that want friends to open themselves unto, are cannihals of their own hearts. But one thing is most admirahle (wherewith I will conclude this first-fruit...
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...second master, Louis XL, whose closeness was indeed his tormentor. The parable of Pythagoras is dark, what praying there is for light and clear knowledge...and fabricked already to our hands. Yet when the new cuttcth griefs in halves ; for there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...second master, Louis XL, whose closeness was indeed his tormentor. The parable of Pythagoras is dark, r wit was more than man ; her innocence a child. * * * When in mid-air the golden ļ phmsc, those that want friends to open themselves unto, are cannibals of their own hearts ; but one...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...second master, Louis XI., whose closeness was indeed his tormentor. The parable of Pythagoras is dark, ising »-ill conclude this first fruit of friendship), which ”я, that this communicating of a man's self...
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Notes and Queries

1887 - 678 pages
...to quote the following from Bacon's essay "Of Friend ship":— " The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true, ' Cor ne edito '—eat not the heart. Certainly,...themselves unto, are cannibals of their own hearts." The " parable " appears to be ascribed to Pythagoras by Plutarch, ' De Educat. Puer.,' 17. JAMES HOOPER....
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A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...master, Lewis the Eleventh^ whose closeness was indeed his tormentor. The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true, " cor ne edito," — " eat not the heart."...Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those thst wnnt friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their cwn heart? ; but one thing is most...
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