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" ... certain it is, that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up, in the communicating and discoursing with another; he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he... "
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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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...with another : he tosseth his thoughts more easily — he marshalleth them more orderly — he seeth weet. О how can beauty master FROM 1558 TO 1625. figure, whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. Neither is this second fruit...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...discoursing with another. He tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth them more orderly ; he seeth 6 • Philippe de Commines began his career at the court of Charlei la Hardi, Charles the Bold, Duke...
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English as Experience

Henry Chester Tracy - English language - 1928 - 342 pages
...discoursing with one another; he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more than by a day's meditation. Since our main theme is English as Experience, it will be pertinent to...
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Examination Papers for Admission to the United States Naval Academy ...

United States Naval Academy - 1914 - 110 pages
...sentence. Describe the clauses and the grammatical subjects and predicates: "Conversation makes a man wax wiser than himself and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation." 4. Parse the italicized words in the following: "Nothing could exceed the persuasiveness of his style....
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 3

Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...marshalleth them more • Secretivencss. • Proverb. * The " philosopher's stone." orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words: finally,...and put abroad; whereby the imagery doth appear in figure;9 whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. Neither is this second fruit of friendship,...
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Plato's Dialogue on Friendship: An Interpretation of the Lysis, with a New ...

Plato, David Bolotin - Family & Relationships - 1989 - 234 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,...by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. . . . Neither is this second fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, restrained only to...
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Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship

Michael Pakaluk - Philosophy - 1991 - 292 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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The Story of Philosophy

Will Durant - Biography & Autobiography - 1965 - 736 pages
...discoursing with another; he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshaleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by one hour's discourse than by a day's meditation."34 In the essay "Of Youth and Age" he puts a book...
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Emerson's Literary Criticism

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Literary Collections - 1995 - 304 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...by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation." The defects of this book stand in glaring contrast to its merits. Out breaks at intervals a mean cunning...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1999 - 276 pages
...discoursing with another; he tosseth15 his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth16 them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words: finally,...meditation.* It was well said by Themistocles to the king of 1 secrecy 2 corrupt, destroy 3 put it bluntly 4 communicates 5 effectiveness 6 calling in, as an advocate...
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