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" Heraclitus saith well, in one of his enigmas, "Dry light is ever the best ; " and certain it is, that 'the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is... "
Essays in Mosaic - Page 173
by Thomas Ballantyne - 1870 - 210 pages
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...lieth more open, and fallcth within vulgar observation — which is faithful counsel from a friend. he lustiest said, ' Sir, we be young gentlemen ; and...before us have proved all fashions, and yet those have conicth from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...lieth more open, and falleth within vulgar observation — which is faithful counsel from a friend. Heraclitus saith well, in one of his enigmas, ' Dry...infused and drenched in his affections and customs. So as there is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giyeth himself,...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral ; And, Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...Faithful Counfel from a Friend. Heraclitus faith well, in one of his Enigmas ; Dry Light is ever the bejl. And certain it is, that the Light, that a man receiveth, by Counfel from another, is drier, and purer, than that which cometh from his own Underftanding, and Judgement...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...lieth more open, and falleth within vulgar observation — which is faithful counsel from a friend. Heraclitus saith well, in one of his enigmas, * Dry...counsel from another, is drier and purer than that winch cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his afiectiuna...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...which lieth more open, and falleth within vulgar observation; which is faithful counsel from a friend. Heraclitus saith well in one of his enigmas, ' Dry light is ever the best.'4 And certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...observation ; which is faithful counsel from a friend. Heraelitus saith well in one of his eenigmas, " So as there is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man givcth himself,...
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Letters

Francis Bacon - 1854 - 866 pages
...is ever the best; which in another place he thus expounds: " Certainly the light lhata man receivcth by counsel from another, is drier and purer than that...which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, this being; ever infused and drenched in his affections." Stephens. also a memorial of queen Elizabeth...
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Ambrose the sculptor, Volume 2; Volume 233

mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1854 - 342 pages
...regard for him, he was by far the most welcome visiter at our humble but happy little abode. CHAPTER IV. Heraclitus saith well in one of his enigmas, " Dry light is ever best : " and certain it is, that the light a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer...
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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...which lieth more open, and falleth within vulgar observation ; which is faithful counsel from a friend. Heraclitus saith well, in one of his enigmas, " Dry...infused and drenched in his affections and customs. So, as there is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth...
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...a tyrant brother.' — Shakespers. vulgar1 observation — which is faithful counsel from a friend. Heraclitus saith well, in one of his enigmas, ' Dry...infused and drenched in his affections and customs. So as there is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself,...
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