 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 468 pages
...fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the commu- \ nicating and discoursing with another ; he tosseth his thoughts...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,1 opened and put abroad,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pages
...understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another ; he tosscth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth them more...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,1 opened and put abroad,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 234 pages
...voi. ip 27, et seq.), gi-es some curious explanations of the doctrines of this philo 6< Uer. light in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion...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;... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth them more orderly ; he seeth how they look 135 when they are turned into words ; finally, he waxeth...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... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...friendship is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the affections.21 Kensnl Green Omotory. WINTHBOP MACKWORTH PKAED (1802-1839)...LETTERS FROM TEIOX MOUTH. I. — OUR Ku.i.8 You'll come of Themistocles to the king of Persia, That speech was like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby... | |
 | Friendship - 1911 - 120 pages
...it maketh a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests; in consultation with a friend a man tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth...by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. — Bacon. 73 NOTHING is more common than the name of friend ; nothing is more rare than true friendship.... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - Friendship - 1912 - 424 pages
...can acquire only through the intercourse of such friendship as he enjoyed, Bacon says felicitously: "Friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections,...by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation." And as if he were epitomizing his own experience in the intellectual as in the political world, Bacon... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1899 - 1036 pages
...with another; he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth them more orderly ; he seeth lune they look when they are turned into words; finally...by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation." More than once an honored white-haired friend has repeated to us this verse : He that hath a thousand... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...hearts. But one thing is most admirable (wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship), whidh and I together live 35 Here in this happy dell."...never more will be. A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL Themistocles to the king 1 a Greek philosopher 2 calling in as advocates of Persia, That speech was... | |
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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... 
