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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ... - Page 60
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...discoursing with another ; he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth them more orderly ; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words : finally,...in figure ; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs." Neither is this second fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, restrained only to...
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Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances

Edward FitzGerald - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 172 pages
...discoursing with another ; he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth them more orderly ; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words : finally,...appear in figure ; whereas in Thoughts they lie but in packs." Neither is this second fruit of Friendship in opening the understanding restrained only...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral ; And, Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...difcourfing with Another : he tofleth his Thoughts more eafily ; he marfhalleth them more orderly ; he feeth how they look when they are turned into Words ; finally, he waxeth wifer than himfelf ; and that more by an hour's Difcourfe, than by a Day's Meditation. It was well...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...orderly— he seeth how they look when they arc turned into words — finally, he waxeth wiser tlian himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than...of Persia, ' That speech was like cloth of Arras, oponed and put abroad' — whereby the imagery doth appear in figure, whereas in thoughts they lie...
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Sabbath Laws and Sabbath Duties: Considered in Relation to Their Natural and ...

Robert Cox - Freedom of religion - 1853 - 744 pages
...discoursing with another ; he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; ho marshalleth them more orderly ; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words ; finally,...an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.'' — (bacon's Essay of Pritndthifi.) Sec also a paper by Addison in the Spectator, No. 93. The same...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...marshalleth them more orderly ; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words ; finally, he wnxeth God, for our better establishment, and the confuting...that is, 큽 p H ㄃ " packs. Neither is this second fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, restrained only to...
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A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies: Original and Selected ...

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Art and literature - 1855 - 398 pages
...original sense, it is, like many of the old Italian proverbs, worldly wise and profoundly immoral. 27. IT was well said by Themistocles to the King of Persia,...appear in figure, whereas in thoughts they lie but in packs " (ie rolled up or packed up). Dryden had evidently this passage in his mind when he wrote...
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An Analytical and Practical Grammar of the English Language

Peter Bullions - English language - 1855 - 264 pages
...their object, truth, and that is qualified by the adjective, simple. 6. " Conversation makes a man wax wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation." This is a compound sentence, consisting of two independent clauses, connected by and, each of which...
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Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion, Volume 2

Anna Cabot Lowell - Conduct of life - 1856 - 330 pages
...discoursing with' another ; he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth them more orderly ; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words : finally,...in figure ; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs." Neither is this second fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, restrained only to...
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...them more orderly — he seeth how they look when they are turned into words — finally, he waxcth* wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse...in figure, whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. Neither is this second fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, restrained'1 only...
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