 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 510 pages
...there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty 170 of a friend. Counsel is of two sorts ; the one concerning manners, the other...of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine, sometime, too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead. Observing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 788 pages
...and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self, as the liberty of a friend. Counsel is of two sorts ; the one concerning manners, the other...of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine, sometime, tno piercing and corrosive. Reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead. Observing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 300 pages
...of a friend. Counsel is of two sorts : the one concerning manners. LllL ulliu1 oonoorning bntinesi For the first, the best preservative to Keep the mind...faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a nTan's belfTo" a strict account is a medicine sometime too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 pages
...faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometime too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books of...little flat and dead. Observing our faults in others is sometimes un proper for our case. But the best receipt (best, I say, to work, and best to take)... | |
 | Eustace Miles - 1904 - 642 pages
...friend's help over solitary struggles is pointed out by Bacon, when he says, in one of his essays : — " The calling of a man's self to a strict account is...good books of morality is a little flat and dead. . . . But the best receipt (best to work, and best to take) is the admonition of a friend." The friend... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1905 - 200 pages
...and there is no such remedy, against flattery of a man's self, as the liberty of a friend. Counsel is of two sorts ; the one concerning manners, the other...is the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling ol a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometime too piercing and corrosive. Reading good... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 pages
...self; and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. sometime too piercing and corrosive ; reading good books of...little flat and dead; observing our faults in others is sometimes improper for our case; but the best receipt (best, I say, to work, and best to take) is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1905 - 410 pages
...liberty of a friend. Counsel is of two sorts: the one concerning manners, •".^e other concerning 20 business. For the first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health is the ?aithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometime... | |
 | Harold Bayley - 1906 - 418 pages
...purge the heart No ! theres no medicine left for my disease. KYD (Spanish Tragedy HI. 9.) 1594-1602. The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonitions of a friend.... When all is done the help of good counsel is that which setteth business... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pages
...and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. Counsel is of two sorts ; the one concerning manners, the other...of a man's self to a strict account, is a medicine sometime too piercing and corrosive ; reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead ; observing... | |
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... 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 the liberty of a friend. Counsel is of two sorts : the... 
