The Essayes Or, Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon ...Dutton, 1900 - 6 էջ |
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... less distinguished than Hilliard , executed and inscribed with the following words in token of his esteem , " Si tabula daretur digna , animum mallem . " The studies he pursued in Con- tinental politics and diplomacy supplied material ...
... less distinguished than Hilliard , executed and inscribed with the following words in token of his esteem , " Si tabula daretur digna , animum mallem . " The studies he pursued in Con- tinental politics and diplomacy supplied material ...
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... less emptiness , less idle- ness in what he uttered . " 2 Two pieces of preferment , if such they can be 2 Discoveries - Jonson's Works , vol . iii . p . 401 . 1 Readily . called , came to him at this time - he xviii Introduction Of Travel.
... less emptiness , less idle- ness in what he uttered . " 2 Two pieces of preferment , if such they can be 2 Discoveries - Jonson's Works , vol . iii . p . 401 . 1 Readily . called , came to him at this time - he xviii Introduction Of Travel.
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... less infamous monarch , Bacon turned with an eagerness almost passionate to resume the intellectual pursuits his official duties had inter- rupted . In profound study he found an anodyne for his spirit's pain , the delight he ...
... less infamous monarch , Bacon turned with an eagerness almost passionate to resume the intellectual pursuits his official duties had inter- rupted . In profound study he found an anodyne for his spirit's pain , the delight he ...
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... less appeared to satisfy him ; the orb of his brain , to use his own phrase , being concentric with the universe . Bacon's philosophical " system , " which is to be studied in his Advancement of Learning , the De Augmentis , and the ...
... less appeared to satisfy him ; the orb of his brain , to use his own phrase , being concentric with the universe . Bacon's philosophical " system , " which is to be studied in his Advancement of Learning , the De Augmentis , and the ...
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... less pain than the torture of a limb ; for the most . vital parts are not the quickest of sense . And by him , that spake only as a philosopher and natural man , it was well said , Pompa mortis magis terret quam mors ipsa . Groans and ...
... less pain than the torture of a limb ; for the most . vital parts are not the quickest of sense . And by him , that spake only as a philosopher and natural man , it was well said , Pompa mortis magis terret quam mors ipsa . Groans 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.