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" Dry light is ever the best," and certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment : which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs. "
The Quarterly Magazine of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, Manchester Unity - Page 319
1860
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...' Dry light is ever the best ;' and certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by софsel + , = . ' giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer ; for there is no such...
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A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...is ever the best," and certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from an other is drier and purer than that which cometh from his...between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer; lor there is no such...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...Heraclitus saith well in one of his enigmas, "Dry light is ever the best," and certain it is, that +C jU #) ; \jXiz ߍ ( 4L 4 ^ ֎6 U' mS g ' } betweerTlhe counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...Heraclitus saith well, in one of his enigmas, ' Dry light is ever the best ;! and certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and purer than that which conicth from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, with notes by A. Spiers

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...Heraclitus saith well in one of his enigmas, "Dry light is ever the best. " And certain it is, that the light that a ' man receiveth by counsel from another,...between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...Heraclitus saith well, in one of his enigmas, ' Dry light is ever the best;' and certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another,...between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giyeth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer ; for there is no such...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...Heraclitus saith well in one of his enigmas, "Dry light is ever the best," and certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another,...between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer; for there is no such...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral ; And, Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...Enigmas ; Dry Light is ever the bejl. And certain it is, that the Light, that a man receiveth, by Counfel from another, is drier, and purer, than that which cometh from his own Underftanding, and Judgement ; which is ever infufed and drenched in his Affedtions and Cuftoms. So...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...Heraclitus saith well in one of his enigmas, ' Dry light is ever the best.'4 And certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another,...drier and purer than that which cometh from his own under3 Plut. vit. Themist 28. 4 Ap. Stob. term. v. 120. Via. AL i. 3. standing and judgment; which...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...Heraclitus saith well, in one of his enigmas, * Dry light is ever the best ;' and certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and purer than that winch cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his afiectiuna...
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