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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... "
The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay - Page 281
by Francis Bacon - 1838
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Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion, Volume 2

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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Literary and professional works

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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 6

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...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

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' —...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

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,...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works

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...
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The United Presbyterian Magazine

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...
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Bacon, His Writings and His Philosophy

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...
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Literary and professional works

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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