Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. "
Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One - Page 126
by Francis Bacon - 1820 - 539 pages
Full view - About this book

A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...the heart- but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicion^ ;ounsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it,...confession. It is a strange thing to observe how high 8 rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit of friendship whereof we speak : so great, as...
Full view - About this book

Works, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...the liver ; steel to open the spleen ; Hour of sulphur for the lungs; castoreum for the brain; but consuetude." Younger brothers are commonly fortunate,...or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII. Jt is a strange thing to observe, how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit of...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...the liver, steel to open the splron, flower of sulphur for the lungs, oastareum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to...fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lii'lli upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. It is a strange thing...
Full view - About this book

The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, with notes by A. Spiers

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...the liver ; steel to open the spleen ; flour of sulphur for the lungs; castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to...hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth iipon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. 3. It is a strange thing to...
Full view - About this book

The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral ; And, Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...Liver ; Steel to open the Spleen ; Flower of Sulphur for the Lungs ; Ca/loreum for the Brain ; but no Receipt openeth the Heart, but a true Friend, to whom you may impart Griefs, Joys, Fears, Hopes, Sufpicions, Counfels, and whatfoever liveth upon the Heart, to opprefs it, in a kind of civil Shrift...
Full view - About this book

Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...open the spleen, "flour of sulphur for the lungs, castorcum for the brain ; but no receipt opcneth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart...fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever Heth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. It is a strange thing to...
Full view - About this book

Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion, Volume 2

Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - 330 pages
...requires great and sublime parts. There must be very two, before there can be very one. Emerson. * No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to...counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. The first fruit of friendship is that this communicating of...
Full view - About this book

A Memoir of Adelaide Leaper Newton

John Baillie - 1856 - 416 pages
...essays, quotes a proverb of the ancients — " A friend is another himself." " No receipt," he adds, " openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may...and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it." Dear Adelaide had left behind her not a few prized companionships ; but others were substituted. "...
Full view - About this book

Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart hut a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys,...fruit of friendship whereof we speak, — so great, as2 they purchase it many times at the hazard of their own safety and greatness : for princes, in regard...
Full view - About this book

The Essays Or Counsels Civil and Moral. With the Wisdom of the Ancients ...

Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...Liver ; Steel to open the Spleen ; Flower of Sulphur for the Lungs ; Caftoreum for the Brain ; but no Receipt openeth the Heart but a true Friend, to whom you may impart Griefs, Joys, Fears, Hopes, Sufpicions, Counfels, and whatfoever liveth upon the Heart to opprefs it, in a kind of civil Shrift...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF