 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1895 - 546 pages
...fairly in college," for the reception was over. CHAPTER V. "PA" AND "MA BOFFIN" HAVE A DOMESTIC CHAT. No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. — Baton, "Of Friendship." When Ma Boffin got home from the sophomore reception, she found Ruth already... | |
 | Alexander Whyte - Bible - 1896 - 332 pages
...sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend — a true friend to whom you may impart griefs, joys,...and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it. And our own Edward Irving, a great student of Bacon, often sorely needed a wise friend, as we see in... | |
 | Edmund Henry Lacon Watson - 1897 - 274 pages
...the same strain— that it is a purgative for the heart. A friend, with Bacon, is a lay confessor. " No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to...whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a sort of civil shrift or confession." So also Emerson holds that the use of a friend is to cultivate... | |
 | William Henry Maxwell, George James Smith, George Jay Smith - English language - 1900 - 282 pages
...is not otherwise in the mind; you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain;...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. — Francis Bacon, Essay on Friendship. The method of comparisons and contrasts may be used in any... | |
 | Lewis Barnett Fretz - American literature - 1901 - 184 pages
...liver, steel to open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain, but no recipe openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession." When persons have seen, instinctively, each through the very nature of the other, and can fully feel... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 312 pages
...Hopes, Suspicions, Counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the Heart, to oppresse it, in a kind of Civill Shrift or Confession. It is a Strange Thing to observe,...Great Kings and Monarchs, do set upon this Fruit of Frendship, wherof we speake: So great, as they purchase it, many times, at the hazard of their owne... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 348 pages
...induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous to the body; and it is not otherwise in the mind. You may take sarza to open...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. Bacon. On ne sauroit conserver long-temps les sentiments qu'on doit avoir pour ses amis et pour ses... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - English essays - 1903 - 384 pages
...much otherwise in the mind ; 2 you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. , . . 3 The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true ; Cor ne edito • ' Eat not the heart.' Certainly,... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - Omar Khayyam - 1904 - 268 pages
...induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous to the body ; and it is not otherwise in the mind. You may take sarza to open...lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shift or confession.—Bacon. A modern Greek proverb says " LOVE YOUR FRIEND WITH HIS FOIBLE.'' And... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - Literary Collections - 1905 - 186 pages
...induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous to the body ; and it is not otherwise in the mind. You may take sarza to open...hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth on the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. Bacon. On ne sauroit conserver... | |
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A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body, and it is not much... 
