The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the AncientsLittle, Brown, 1856 - 360 էջ |
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... 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 pre- cious odors , most fragrant when they are incensed ...
... 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 pre- cious odors , most fragrant when they are incensed ...
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... ground of it is poetical story , therefore , let it have this place till a fitter be found for it . " The author of Bacon's Life , in the Biographia Britan- nica , says : " That he might relieve himself a little from the severity of ...
... ground of it is poetical story , therefore , let it have this place till a fitter be found for it . " The author of Bacon's Life , in the Biographia Britan- nica , says : " That he might relieve himself a little from the severity of ...
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... ground , kissed the favorite's feet , and vowed never to rise till he was forgiven ! It must after this have been difficult indeed for him to rise again in the world's esteem or his own . cree . Bacon was made to purchase at a dear ...
... ground , kissed the favorite's feet , and vowed never to rise till he was forgiven ! It must after this have been difficult indeed for him to rise again in the world's esteem or his own . cree . Bacon was made to purchase at a dear ...
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... grounds would refuse to Jenner or to Howard their civic crowns , because a few farmers in a remote province had , time out of mind , been acquainted with vaccination , or philanthropists , in all ages , had occa- sionally visited the ...
... grounds would refuse to Jenner or to Howard their civic crowns , because a few farmers in a remote province had , time out of mind , been acquainted with vaccination , or philanthropists , in all ages , had occa- sionally visited the ...
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... grounds of hope regarding the advancement of science . He now aspires , to use his own language , “ only to sow the seeds of pure truth for posterity , and not to be wanting in his assistance to the first beginning of great undertakings ...
... grounds of hope regarding the advancement of science . He now aspires , to use his own language , “ only to sow the seeds of pure truth for posterity , and not to be wanting in his assistance to the first beginning of great undertakings ...
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Էջ 23 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Էջ 227 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Էջ 205 - That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express; * no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Էջ 31 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things ' ; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Էջ 55 - It is as natural to die as to be born, and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Էջ 228 - 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.
Էջ 66 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Էջ 50 - One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum, 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.
Էջ 52 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Էջ 138 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end...