 ... 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 seeth how they look...  Bacon's Essays - Page 282by Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 586 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that F more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation....fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, restrained only to such friends as are able to give a man counsel (they indeed are best), but even... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...marshalleth them more orderly : he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally; he waxeth wiser than himself ; and that more by an hour's discourse, than by a day's meditation: - — Neither is this second fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, restrained to such... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words: finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse...speech was " like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad ; where" by the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in " thoughts they lie but as in packs." Neither... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...marshalleth them more orderly ; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words : finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse...speech was " like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad ; where" by the imagery doth appear in figure ; whereas in " thoughts they lie but as in packs." Neither... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...marshalleth them more orderly ; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words : finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse...speech was " like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad ; where" by the imagery doth appear in figure ; whereas in " thoughts they lie but as in packs." Neither... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 824 pages
...are good in canvasses and factions, that are otherwise weak men. Bacon i Essays. Themistocles said to the king of Persia, that speech was like cloth...Arras, opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery appears in figures; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packi. Bacon. There passed continually packets... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1829 - 570 pages
...marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation." This I conceive is applicable to one frame of mind, but not to another of equal capacity and elasticity.... | |
 | William Swan - Missionaries - 1830 - 372 pages
...marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words ; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation." (Bacon.) What is true of discourse is in a great degree true of writing ; and I have not been altogether... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...marshalleth them more orderly 4 he seeth how they look when they are turned into words ; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse...was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia, " thr.t speech was like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad :" whereby the imagery doth appear in... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1835 - 582 pages
...Finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and getteth more by an hour's discourse than a day's reading. — It was well said by Themistocles to the King of Persia,...and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figures; whereas in thoughts they be but as in a pack. — Nay, of such exceeding advantage it is,... | |
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