 | Francis Bacon - 1825
...able to give a man counsel, (they indeed are best,) but even without that a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not. In a word, a man were better relate himself to a statue or... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - Страниц: 832
...able to give a man counsel : they indeed are best : but even, without that, a man leameth of himself and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not. In a word ; a man were better relate himself to a statue or... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840
...able to give a man counsel, (they indeed are best), but even without that a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not. In a word, a man were better relate himself to a statue or... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840
...able to give a man counsel (they indeed are best), but even without that a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not. In a word, a man were better relate himself to a statue or... | |
 | James Marsh - 1843 - Страниц: 642
...to divide care, and the second to gain counsel, yet even without these, 'a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not.' I board in commons, and room in college ; partly from necessity,... | |
 | George Long - 1845 - Страниц: 250
...to give a man counsel: they " indeed are best; but even, without that, " a man learneth of himself and bringeth his " own thoughts to light, and whetteth his " wits as against a stone, which of itself cuts " not." From one of the two greatest English philosophers the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846
...able to give a man counsel (they indeed are best); but even without that a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not. In a word, a man were better relate himself to a statue or... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847
...able to give a man counsel (they indeed are best), but even without that a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not. In a word, a man were better relate himself to a statue or... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849
...able to give a man counsel (they indeed are best), but even without that a man learneth of himself, t Chambers against a stone, which itself cuta not. In a word, a man were better relate himself to a statue or... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851
...able to give a man counsel (they indeed are best,) but even without that a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not. In a word, a man were better relate himself to a statue or... | |
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Neither is this second fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, restrained only to such friends as are able to give a man counsel, (they indeed are best,) but even without that a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light,... 
