The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional worksBrown and Taggard, 1860 |
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... ancient saying , a tradition of the poets , an observation of one of the fathers , or a sentence from some classical writer , without specifying the volume and page where he found it , should not still be held a reason for leaving them ...
... ancient saying , a tradition of the poets , an observation of one of the fathers , or a sentence from some classical writer , without specifying the volume and page where he found it , should not still be held a reason for leaving them ...
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... ancient poets , which seemeth not to be without mys- tery ; nay , and to have some approach to the state of a Christian ; that Hercules , when he went to unbind Prometheus , ( by whom human nature is represented ) , sailed the length of ...
... ancient poets , which seemeth not to be without mys- tery ; nay , and to have some approach to the state of a Christian ; that Hercules , when he went to unbind Prometheus , ( by whom human nature is represented ) , sailed the length of ...
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... ancient or recent , ) there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love which shews that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion . You must except nevertheless Marcus OF LOVE . 109 Of Love.
... ancient or recent , ) there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love which shews that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion . You must except nevertheless Marcus OF LOVE . 109 Of Love.
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... ancient time , what is best ; and of the latter time , what is fittest . Seek to make thy course regular , 2 that men may know beforehand what they may expect ; but be not too positive and peremptory ; 1 sed absque elatione tui ipsius ...
... ancient time , what is best ; and of the latter time , what is fittest . Seek to make thy course regular , 2 that men may know beforehand what they may expect ; but be not too positive and peremptory ; 1 sed absque elatione tui ipsius ...
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... ancient castle or building not in decay ; or to see a fair timber tree sound and perfect . How much more to behold an ancient noble family , which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time . For new nobility is but the act of ...
... ancient castle or building not in decay ; or to see a fair timber tree sound and perfect . How much more to behold an ancient noble family , which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time . For new nobility is but the act of ...
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adeo Æsop amongst ancient atheism atque Augustus Cæsar autem Bacon better body businesse Cæsar Certainly Cicero commonly counsel cunning custom danger death discourse doth ejus Endymion enim envy erat Essays esset etiam factions fame favour fere fortune Francis Bacon fuit Galba goeth hæc hath haue honour hujusmodi illa illud instar Itaque Iudge iudgement Julius Cæsar kind King likewise magis maketh man's matter means men's Metis mind nature Neque neuer nihil nobility omnia opinion persons Pompey princes profanum quæ quam quod rebus religion reputation rerum rest riches saith Salomon seditions servants shew sibi side sive sort speak speech suæ sunt Tacitus tamen tanquam tantum themselues things thou thought Tiberius tion translation adds true unto usury veluti vertue Vespasian virtue vpon wherein whereof wise words
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Seite 253 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Seite 132 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ;* for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity...
Seite 83 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth," (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) " and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below," f so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Seite 236 - I daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Seite 84 - weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to " say, that he is brave towards God, and a coward ".towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks " from man." Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men : it being foretold, that when " Christ cometh," he shall not " find
Seite 95 - ... hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue, j VI.
Seite 253 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Seite 82 - Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum [devil's-wine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt ; such as we spake of before.
Seite 192 - DISCOURSE. SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is true ; as if it were a praise to know what might be said, and not what should be thought.
Seite 134 - They that deny a God, destroy man's nobility : for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.