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For Friendship's Sake: Essays on Friendship - Page 87
1900 - 90 pages
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The Essayes Or Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Lo: Verulam, Viscount ...

Francis Bacon - 1900 - 382 pages
...faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine, sometime, too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books of...dead. Observing our faults in others is sometimes unproper for our case. But the best receipt (best, I say, to work, and best to take) is the admonition...
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The Essayes Or, Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon ...

Francis Bacon - 1900 - 376 pages
...faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine, sometime, too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books of...dead. Observing our faults in others is sometimes unproper for our case. But the best receipt (best, I say, to work, and best to take) is the admonition...
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The Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon ... Ed., with an ...

Francis Bacon - 1900 - 290 pages
...calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometime too piercing and corrosiveReading 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 take) is the admonition...
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The Essays of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1901 - 312 pages
...Selfe, to a Strict Account, is a Medicine, sometime, too Piercing and Corrosive. Reading good Bookes 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 worke, and best to take) is the Admonition...
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A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ...

Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 pages
...faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometime too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books of...dead. Observing our faults in others is sometimes un proper for our case. But the best receipt (best, I say, to work, and best to take) is the admonition...
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Essay-writing for Schools a Practical Exposition of the Principles of this ...

Leslie Cope Cornford - 1903 - 384 pages
...faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine, sometime, too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books of...dead. Observing our faults in others is sometimes improper1 for our case. But the best receipt (best, I say, to work, and best to take)2 is the admonition...
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A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ...

Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 470 pages
...faithful admonition of a friend. The calling 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 Art and dead. Observing our faults in others is soi^imes unproper for our case. But the best receipt...
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A Boy's Control and Self-expression

Eustace Miles - 1904 - 644 pages
...in one of his essays : — " The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too piercing and corrosive ; reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead. . . . But the best receipt (best to work, and best to take) is the admonition of a friend." The friend...
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The Essays, Or Counsels, Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam ...

Francis Bacon - 1905 - 410 pages
...?aithful admonition of a friend. The calling 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 flat0 and 25 dead. Observing our faults in others is sometimes unproper for our case. But the best...
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The Essays of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1908 - 428 pages
...faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine, sometime, too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books of...to work, and best to take ) is the admonition of a Jiriend. It is a strange thing to behold what gross errors and extreme absurdities many (especially...
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