| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...', the one concerning Manners, the other concerning Bufineft. For the firft » The beft prefervative to keep the Mind in Health, is the faithful Admonition of a Friend. The calling of a Mans Self to a ftrict Account is a Medicine fometime too Piercing and Corrofive* Reading.good Books... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1720 - 528 pages
...Flatterer than a Man's felf ; nor, again, a more Sovereign Remedy againft Flattery of a Man's felf, than the Liberty of a FRIEND. COUNSEL is of two Sorts :...concerning MANNERS; the other concerning BUSINESS. For the Firft; The beft Prefervative to keep the Mind in Health, is the Admonition of a Faithful FRIEND. The... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1720 - 556 pages
...Flatterer than a Man's felf ; nor, again, a more Sovereign Remedy againfl Flattery of a Man's felf, than the Liberty of a FRIEND. COUNSEL is of two Sorts ; The one concerning MANNERS; the other con-i cerning BUSINESS. For the Firfl; The beft Prefervative to keep the Mind in Health, is the Admonition... | |
| David Lloyd - 1766 - 608 pages
...words) the one concerning manners? the other concerning bufinefs : for the firft, the beft prefervative to keep the mind in health, is the faithful admonition of a Friend : The calling of a man's felf to aftrift account, is a medicine fometime too piercing and corroding ; reading good Books of... | |
| Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer ; for there is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self, as is the liberty of a friend. LORD BACOK. IN advice given to young people, it fares with them, as it... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer ; for there is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such....a man's self as the liberty of a friend. Counsel it of two sorts ; the one concerning manners, the other concerning business : for the first, the best... | |
| 1816 - 782 pages
...principle offal vat ion. — There is no £«>//;& in us. Common Prajer. — The beft prefervative to keep the mind in health, is the faithful admonition of a friend. Bacon. 3. Salvation fpiritual and temporal. — My God, my God, why haft thou forfaken me, and art... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...and of a, flatterer; for there is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedv against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of...calling of a man's self to a strict account, is a midicine sometimes too piercing and corrosive; reading good books of morality is a little flat and... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 416 pages
...faalthful airs do appear by habitation and proofs, that differ not in smell from other airs. Bacon. The best preservative to keep the mind in health, is the faithful admonition of a friend. Id. He asked leave to begin two healths : the first was w> the king's mistrei*. and the second to his... | |
| Arabella Jane Sullivan - 1833 - 212 pages
...as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer ; for there is no such flatterer as a man's self, and there is no such remedy against...flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. — LORD BACON'S EISAYB. LUCY stopped short. There was something in this simple answer of Milly's that... | |
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