 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out o& darkneas and confusion of thoughts: neither is this to be understood...discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia, "That speech was like cloth of Arras, opened and pnt abroad; whereby... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...effects, but still to the good and benefit of nature : but yet, without praying in aid of alchymists, there is a manifest image of this in the ordinary...discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia, " That speech was like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...the communicating and discoursing with another ! he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshaleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they...words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that F more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the king... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...break up in the communicating and discoursing with another: he tos••:h his thoughts more easely; he marshalleth them more orderly : he seeth how they...by an hour's discourse, than by a day's meditation: - — Neither is this second fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, restrained to such... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 598 pages
...there is a manifest image of this in the ordinary course of nature. For in bodies, union strengthened and cherisheth any natural action; and, on the other...discourse, than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia, That speech was like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad, whereby... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...natural action ; and, on the other side, weakeneth and dulleth any violent impression ; and even so it is of minds. The second fruit of friendship is healthful...discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia, " That speech was " like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...natural action ; and, on the other side, weakeneth and dulleth any violent impression ; and even so it is of minds. The second fruit of friendship is healthful...discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia, " That speech was " like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...natural action; and, on the other side, weakeneth and dulleth any violent impression; and even so it is of minds. The second fruit of friendship is healthful...discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia, " That speech was " like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1829 - 570 pages
...The utility of it seems to be principally in the view of Bacon. Some positions are questionable. " Certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught...by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation." This I conceive is applicable to one frame of mind, but not to another of equal capacity and elasticity.... | |
 | William Swan - Missionaries - 1830 - 372 pages
...for ever dormant. " Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understandings do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing...by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation." (Bacon.) What is true of discourse is in a great degree true of writing ; and I have not been altogether... | |
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... certain it is, that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another : he tosseth his thoughts more easily, he marshalleth them more orderly, he... 
