| Peter Bullions - 1870 - 360 páginas
...their object, truth, and that is qualified by the adjective, simple. 6. " Conversation makes a man wax wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation." This is a compound sentence, consisting of two single sentences, connected by and ; each of them complex,... | |
| 1871 - 832 páginas
...marshalleth them more orderly ; lie 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." " In a word, a man were better relate himself to a statue or picture, than to suffer his thoughts to... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1871 - 634 páginas
...difcourfe, then by a Dayes Meditation. It was well faid by Themiftodes to the King of Perfia ; That fpeech was like Cloth of Arras, opened, and put abroad ; Whereby the Imagery doth appeare in Figure; whereas in Thoughts, they lie*® but as in\Packs.a Neither is this Second Fruit... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 páginas
...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...in figure, whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs.1 Neither is this second fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, restrained only to... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 páginas
...Hudibras, Pt. ii. Canto I, /. 844. Speech is silver, silence is gold. r A German Proverb. Speech is like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad, whereby...figure ; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. Plutarch, Life of Thcmistocles. From Bacon's Essays, On Friendship. Spick and span new. Ford, The Lover's... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 páginas
...—he seeth how they look when they are turned into words—finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; 58 and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's...-was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia: 59 " That speech was like cloth of Arras, 60 opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear... | |
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...Speech is silvern, Silence is golden ; Speech is human, Silence is divine. A German Prm>erb. Speech is like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad, whereby...figure ; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. Plutarch, Life of Tliemistocles ; from Bacon's Essays, On Friendship. Spick and span new. Ray's Proverbs.... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 páginas
...It spreads the beauteous images abroad Which else lie furled and shrouded in the soul. — Speech is like cloth of arras opened and put abroad, whereby...appear in figure, whereas in thoughts they lie but in packs (ie rolled up, or packed up). Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes. — POPE : Homer's... | |
| Monday Club - 1875 - 414 páginas
...marshalleth them more orderly, he seeth how they look when turned into words, — finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation." Thus friendship, he tells us, not only " maketh a fair day in the affections," it also " maketh daylight... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...them more orderly — he seeth how they look when they are turned into words — finally, he waxeth d universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction,...of a head filled by long reading and observing, wit FROM 1558 TO 1625. figure, whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. Neither is this second fruit... | |
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