The Essayes Or, Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon ...Dutton, 1900 - 6 էջ |
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... College , Cam- bridge From a Print in the British Museum . Statue of Bacon in St. Michael's Church , St. Albans • From a Photograph . " " » 190 " " ,, 232 INTRODUCTION RANCIS BACON - Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans ix Of Envy.
... College , Cam- bridge From a Print in the British Museum . Statue of Bacon in St. Michael's Church , St. Albans • From a Photograph . " " » 190 " " ,, 232 INTRODUCTION RANCIS BACON - Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans ix Of Envy.
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... Church over the Marprelate and other contro- versies . In both he pleaded for greater elasticity in matters of doctrine and of discipline . Ere long he attained fame as a parliamentary orator . The same compactness of expression and ...
... Church over the Marprelate and other contro- versies . In both he pleaded for greater elasticity in matters of doctrine and of discipline . Ere long he attained fame as a parliamentary orator . The same compactness of expression and ...
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... Church of England , and the Puritans , who , where not Nonconformists , were so Low Church as to approximate nearer to them than to any other party within or without its pale . Bacon urged toleration on both parties as well as upon the ...
... Church of England , and the Puritans , who , where not Nonconformists , were so Low Church as to approximate nearer to them than to any other party within or without its pale . Bacon urged toleration on both parties as well as upon the ...
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... Church and drive men out of the Church as breach of unity . " Also in the Essays " On Atheism " 2 and " On Superstition " he refers to religious divisions , their causes and their effects , in terms that show how correctly he gauged the ...
... Church and drive men out of the Church as breach of unity . " Also in the Essays " On Atheism " 2 and " On Superstition " he refers to religious divisions , their causes and their effects , in terms that show how correctly he gauged the ...
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... Church of St. Michael , St. Albans . Bacon was intellectually great , but morally weak . His marvellous versatility renders the task a difficult one , to present a critical estimate of the man , which will embrace all the varied aspects ...
... Church of St. Michael , St. Albans . Bacon was intellectually great , but morally weak . His marvellous versatility renders the task a difficult one , to present a critical estimate of the man , which will embrace all the varied aspects ...
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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.