 Counsel is of two sorts; the one concerning manners, the other concerning business : for the first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health, is the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine...  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 129by Francis Bacon - 1815Full view - About this book
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1882 - 686 pages
...calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometime too piercing and corro- "65 sive, reading good books of morality is a little flat and...dead, observing our faults in others is sometimes unproper for our case ; but the best receipt (best, I say, to work, and best to takel is the admonition... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - English language - 1882 - 136 pages
...do not mean to contradict your statement. Saying this, the chief brought the interview to a close. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a useful exercise. Reading makes a full man. The rising into place is laborious. The king, rising from... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 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...business. For the first, the best preservative to keep tho mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Essays - 1884 - 722 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...too piercing and corrosive; reading good books of 7norality is a little flat and dead; observing our faults in others is sometimes improper for our case;... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...there is no such remedy against flattery of a 1*0 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 corro- 165 sive, reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1890 - 826 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, tuo piercing and corrosive. Reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead. Observing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 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 F 162 OF FRIENDSHIP. books of morality is a little... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1887 - 686 pages
...there is no such remedy against flattery of a tfci man's self as the liberty of a friend. Counsel is of two sorts : the one concerning manners, the other...admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a st1ict account is a medicine sometime too piercing and corro- i65 sive, reading good books of morality... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...iorts; the one concerning manners, the other concernir^; business. For the first, the best preя-rvative ile Man that mourns, As the rapt seraph, that adores and burns : To Him no hig a man's «If to ж strict account is a medicine sometimes too piercing and corrosive. Reading good... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1888 - 336 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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