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For Friendship's Sake ...: Emerson, Lubbock, Bacon, Etc - Page 87
1900 - 90 pages
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account, is a medicine sometimes how'rs, Rising or falling, still advance his praise....wave your tops, ye pines ! With every plant, in sign sav, to work, and best to take) is the admonition of a friend. It is a strange thing to behold what...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...faithful admonition of a friend. 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 ; observing our faults ia others is sometimes improper for our case; but the best receipt (best, I say, to work, and best...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...fuithiiil admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's sc!f to a strict account, is а medioine sometimes too piercing and corrosive ; reading good books of...a little flat and dead ; observing; our faults in other! is sometimes improper for our case ; but the best receipt (best, I say, to work, and best to...
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Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion, Volume 2

Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - 330 pages
...faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too piercing and corrosive ; reading good books of...work and best to take) is the admonition of a friend. • Bacon's Essays. " Faithful, " says the preacher, " are the wounds of a friend." What other benefits,...
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Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...

John Timbs - 1856 - 374 pages
...faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too piercing and corrosive ; reading good books of...; but the best receipt (best, I say, to work, and the best to take) is the admonition of a friend. It is a strange thing to behold what gross errors...
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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too piercing and corrosive ; reading good books of...improper for our case ; but the best receipt, (best, 1 say, to work, and best to take,) is the admonition of a friend. It is a strange thing to behold what...
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Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 2

1856 - 372 pages
...faithful admonition of a friend. 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 fiat and dead ; observing our faults in others is sometimes improper for our case ; but the best receipt...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1856 - 590 pages
...faithful admonition of a friend. 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 fiat and dead; observing our faults in others is sometimes improper for our case ; but the best receipt...
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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too piercing and corrosive ; reading good books of...the admonition of a friend. It is a strange thing fo behold what gross errors and extreme absurdities many (especially of the greater sort) do commit,...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 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...our faults in others is sometimes improper for our case.1 But the best receipt (best, I say, to work, and best to take) is the admonition of a friend....
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