The Essayes Or, Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon ...Dutton, 1900 - 6 էջ |
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... Italian has been praised by competent judges . These facts regarding Sir Nicholas and Lady Bacon are mentioned to show that , if heredity hold for aught , he was descended on both sides from parents of more than average ability . Almost ...
... Italian has been praised by competent judges . These facts regarding Sir Nicholas and Lady Bacon are mentioned to show that , if heredity hold for aught , he was descended on both sides from parents of more than average ability . Almost ...
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... Italians make little difference between children and nephews or near kinsfolks ; but so they be of the lump , they care not though they pass not through their own body . And , to say truth , in nature it is much a like matter ; insomuch ...
... Italians make little difference between children and nephews or near kinsfolks ; but so they be of the lump , they care not though they pass not through their own body . And , to say truth , in nature it is much a like matter ; insomuch ...
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... Italians have an ungracious proverb , Tanto buon che val niente : So good , that he is good for nothing . And one of the doctors of Italy , Nicholas Machiavel , had the confidence to put in writing , almost in plain terms , That the ...
... Italians have an ungracious proverb , Tanto buon che val niente : So good , that he is good for nothing . And one of the doctors of Italy , Nicholas Machiavel , had the confidence to put in writing , almost in plain terms , That the ...
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... Italy ) made between Ferdinando King of Naples , Lorenzius Medices , and Ludovicus Sforza , potentates , the one of Florence , the other of Milan . Neither is the opinion of some of the schoolmen to be received , that a war cannot ...
... Italy ) made between Ferdinando King of Naples , Lorenzius Medices , and Ludovicus Sforza , potentates , the one of Florence , the other of Milan . Neither is the opinion of some of the schoolmen to be received , that a war cannot ...
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... Italy , and practice of France , in some kings ' times , hath introduced cabinet counsels ; a remedy worse than the disease . As to secrecy ; princes are not bound to com- municate all matters with all counsellors , but may extract and ...
... Italy , and practice of France , in some kings ' times , hath introduced cabinet counsels ; a remedy worse than the disease . As to secrecy ; princes are not bound to com- municate all matters with all counsellors , but may extract and ...
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Էջ 182 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Էջ 2 - 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 195 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Էջ 3 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit.
Էջ 70 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Էջ 109 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words than in that speech, " Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god...
Էջ 2 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Էջ 16 - But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also ? And so of friends in a proportion.
Էջ 124 - Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the like, all this is but a sheep in a lion's skin, except the breed and disposition of the people be stout and warlike. Nay, number (itself) in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage, for (as Virgil saith) It never troubles a wolf how many the sheep be.
Էջ 41 - It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.