| England - 1876 - 806 pages
...confusion of thoughts ; neither is this to be understood only of faithful counsel whichaman recciveth from his friend; but before you come to that, certain...by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. . . . In a word, a man were better relate himself to a statue or a picture than to suffer his thoughts... | |
| Literature - 1876 - 966 pages
...neither is this to be understood only of faithful counsel which a man rcceiveth from his friend ; hut before you come to that, certain it is that whosoever...by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. ... In a word, a man were better relate himself to a statue or a picture than to suffer his thoughts... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 538 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.... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do claiify and break up in tho Themistocles to the King of Persia, that speech was like cloth of arras, opened and put abroad,' whereby... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in communicating and discoursing with another: he tosseth...by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. LORD BACON : Eisay XXVIII., Of Friendship. Heraclitus saith well in one of his enigmas, " Dry light... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...communicating and discoursing with another : he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth 150 them more orderly ; he seeth how they look when they...discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia, that speech was like cloth O/\K Arras, opened and put abroad, whereby... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - English literature - 1876 - 562 pages
...do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another ; he tosseth his thonghts more easily ; he marshalleth them more orderly ; he...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.... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...discoursing with another: he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth them more orderly ; he seetli how they look when they are turned into words: finally,...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 ;l... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1877 - 1014 pages
...another; he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; ha marshallcth them more orderly ; he seeth how tlu-y look when they are turned into words: finally, he...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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