FRIENDS IN COUNCIL:

A SERIES OF READINGS

AND DISCOURSE

THEREON.

[Sir Arthur Helps. ]

"It is good, in Discourse, and Speech of Conversation, to vary, and inter-
mingle Speech of the present Occasion with Arguments; Tales with Reasons;
Asking of Questions, with Telling of Opinions; and Jest with Earnest: For it
is a dull Thing to Tire, and as we say now, to Jade, any thing too far."-BA-
CON. Essay of Discourse.

VOL. I.

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