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" Counsel is of two sorts; the one concerning manners, the other concerning business: for the first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. "
A Boy's Control and Self-expression - Page 459
by Eustace Miles - 1904 - 572 pages
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...observing our faults in others is sometimes improper for our case; but the best receipt (l>est, I say, erpetual serenity. ADDISON : Spectator, No. 381. MISERY. It is a strange thing to behold what gross errors ar. d extreme absurdities many (especially of the...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

1881 - 578 pages
...the best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years'...could scarce trust myself with myself. It was like pa little.flat and dead. Observing our faults in others is sometimes improper for our case: but the best...
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Text-book of Prose from Burke, Webster, and Bacon: With Notes, and Sketches ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...the first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too 1 That is, like tapestries, opened and spread out. Many of the tapestries or hangings formerly used...
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The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays ...

Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...the first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health, is the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is...reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead ; observing our faults in others is sometimes improper for our case ; but the best receipt (best I...
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Complete English Grammar for the Use of Schools

Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1882 - 136 pages
...do not mean to contradict your statement. Saying this, the chief brought the interview to a close. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a useful exercise. Reading makes a full man. The rising into place is laborious. The king, rising from...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley

Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...the first, the best preservative to keep tho mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is...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,...
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Francis Bacon: (Lord Verulam.): A Critical Review of His Life and Character

Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 pages
...the first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is...reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead ; observing our faults in others is sometimes improper for our case ; but the best receipt (best, I...
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Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1884 - 474 pages
...the first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health, is the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is...reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead ; observing our faults in others is sometimes improper for our case ; but the best receipt (best, I...
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The essays of lord Bacon, including his moral and historical works, with ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...the first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is...good books of morality is a little flat and dead; observing our faults in others is sometimes improper for our case ; but the best receipt (best, I say,...
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Essays: And Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pages
...the first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health, is the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is...reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead ; observing our faults in others is sometimes improper for our case ; but the best receipt (best, I...
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