| Anna Cabot Lowell - Conduct of life - 1856 - 330 pages
...he joyeth the more ; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less. The second fruit of friendship is healthful and sovereign...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 - English literature - 1858 - 812 pages
...confusion of thoughts. Neither is this to be understood only of faithful counsel, which a man rcceiveth from his friend ; but before you come to that, certain...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 - 1858 - 792 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 1cas like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad; whereby... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...understanding, as the first is for the affections ; for friendship maketh indeed a fair day in tho affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh...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, qpened and put abroad' —... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...the communicating and discoursing with another ; he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshallcth them more orderly ; he seeth how they look when they...and put abroad; whereby the imagery doth appear in Jlgurc ; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. Neither is this second fruit of friendship,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 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 - 1860 - 480 pages
...minds. The second fruit of friendship is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the ftrst is for the affections. For friendship maketh indeed...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... | |
| 1860 - 588 pages
...understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another; he marshaDeth them more orderly ; he seeth how they look when they...by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation." " — Works, v. ii., p. 318. The other counsels refer to writing, style, modes of thinking, mixed up... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 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 rhore by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the King... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 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; whereby... | |
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