 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...liver, steel to open the spleen, 35 flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain : but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend ; to...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. 40 It is a strange thing to observe how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...to compare his miracles with those of our Saviour. c "A great city, a great desert." i Sarsaparilla. the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart...or confession. « It is a strange thing to observe how"lrigh a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit of friendship whereof we speak : so... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882 - 214 pages
...the liver, steel to open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castorenm for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to...griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, aud whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. It is a... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 pages
...the liver, steel to open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain ; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. * " A great city is a great desert." t Mere, ie utter. " Life without a friend is death without a witness,"... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - Success - 1883 - 426 pages
...the liver, steel to open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain ; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession." Not less truthfully does this master of wisdom say : " Communicating of a man's self to his friend... | |
 | Alicia Helen N. Little - 1883 - 278 pages
...suffocations are the most dangerous in the body ; and it is not much otherwise in the mind. . . , but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to...whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a civil shrift, or confession.' — Bacon. |Y dear Dulcie, where have you been ? You said you were only... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...• A great city, a great solitude. 112 iD 1625.] 113 for the lungs ; castoreum for the brain ; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to...fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever licth upon the heart, to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. It is a strange thing... | |
 | Sir Thomas Elyot - Education of princes - 1883 - 680 pages
...à rebus magnis ac seriis ocium crit.' — De Regno et Rfg. Inst. lib. viii. tit. II. Bacon says, ' It is a strange thing to observe how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this finit of friendship whereof we speak — so great, as they purchase it many times at the hazard of... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - England - 1884 - 392 pages
...ease and discharge of the fulness of the heart which passions of all kinds do cause and induce ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend : to...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession." One wonders rather what reception Bacon would have given to a friend who came to him for the like "... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...the liver, steel to open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain : but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend ; to...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd 1 is not company, and faces are but a gallery... | |
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... 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. 
