 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 598 pages
...master Lewis the Eleventh, whose closeness was indeed his tormentor. The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true; Cor ne edito, eat not the heart. Certainly,...effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves. For there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but hejoyeth the more; and no man... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...master, Lewis the Eleventh, whose closeness was indeed his tormentor. The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true, " Cor " ne edito,"—" eat not the heart."...communicating of a man's self to his friend works too contrary effects for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halfs; for there is no man that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...master, Lewis the Eleventh, whose closeness was indeed his tormentor. The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true, " Cor " ne edito," — " eat not the heart."....communicating of a man's self to his friend works too contrary effects for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halfs; for there is no man that... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...master, Lewis the Eleventh, whose closeness was indeed his tormentor. The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true, " Cor " ne edito," — " eat not the heart."...communicating of a man's self to his friend works too contrary effects for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halfs; for there is no man that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...master, Lewis the Eleventh, whose closeness was indeed his tormentor. The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true, "cor ne edito," — *' eat not the heart."...friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their cwn hearts ; but one thing is most admirable, (wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship,)... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...master, Lewis the Eleventh, whose closeness was indeed his tormentor. The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true, " Cor ne edito," — "eat not the heart."...effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves: for there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more ; and no... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...that closeness did impair and a little perish his understanding. The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true, " Cor ne edito," — Eat not the heart....their own hearts ; but one thing is most admirable, which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it... | |
 | Christianity - 1845 - 1036 pages
...imajinauons : ' the parable of Pythagoras,' observes Lord Bacon, ' is dark, bnt true; "eat not triy heart;" certainly if a man would give it a hard phrase,...themselves unto, are cannibals of their own hearts.* Yet this peculiar state of religious experience haa also its advantages ^ there u surely no pleasure... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...second master, Louis XL, whose closeness was indeed his tormentor. The parable of Pythagoras is dark, 1 sp№Í my time poorly, halves ; for there ie no man that impartcth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more, and no... | |
 | Mary Ann Serrett Barber - Christian converts from Judaism - 1844 - 376 pages
...imaginations ; ' the parable of Pythagoras,' observes Lord Bacon, ' is dark but true ; " eat not thy heart ; " certainly if a man would give it a hard...themselves unto, are cannibals of their own hearts.' Yet this peculiar state of religious experience has also its advantages ; there is surely no pleasure... | |
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Pythagoras is dark, but true, " cor ne edito," — " eat not the heart." Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto, are cannibals of their own hearts: but one thing is most admirable, wherewith I... 
