Bacon's EssaysLee and Shepard, 1880 - 641 Seiten |
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... regard with excessive admiration writers of a completely opposite character ; those of a mystical , dim , half- intelligible kind of affected grandeur . ' ' It is well known what a reproach to our climate is the prevalence of fogs , and ...
... regard with excessive admiration writers of a completely opposite character ; those of a mystical , dim , half- intelligible kind of affected grandeur . ' ' It is well known what a reproach to our climate is the prevalence of fogs , and ...
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... regard of my continuall service , wch is the cause , that hath made me choose to write certaine brief notes , sett downe rather significantlye , then curiously , wch I have called ESSAIES . The word is late , but the thing is auncient ...
... regard of my continuall service , wch is the cause , that hath made me choose to write certaine brief notes , sett downe rather significantlye , then curiously , wch I have called ESSAIES . The word is late , but the thing is auncient ...
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... regard it as a duty to suppress all exercise of the intellectual powers , in every case where the feelings are at variance with the conclu- sions of reason . They deem it right to ' consult the heart more than the head ; ' that is , to ...
... regard it as a duty to suppress all exercise of the intellectual powers , in every case where the feelings are at variance with the conclu- sions of reason . They deem it right to ' consult the heart more than the head ; ' that is , to ...
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... regard to seeming expediency . The greatest of all these obstacles to the habit of following truth is the last mentioned - the tendency to look , in the first instance , to the expedient . It is this principle that influences men to the ...
... regard to seeming expediency . The greatest of all these obstacles to the habit of following truth is the last mentioned - the tendency to look , in the first instance , to the expedient . It is this principle that influences men to the ...
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... regard as establishing their own character for eminent generosity . Nor are they usually mistaken in their calculation ; for if not absolutely commended for their magnanimous moderation , they usually escape , at least , the well ...
... regard as establishing their own character for eminent generosity . Nor are they usually mistaken in their calculation ; for if not absolutely commended for their magnanimous moderation , they usually escape , at least , the well ...
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Seite 169 - 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 :
Seite 472 - 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.
Seite 283 - Pythagoras is dark, but true, " cor ne edito," — " eat not the heart." Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto, are cannibals of their own hearts: but one thing is most admirable, wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship, which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in...
Seite 13 - ... 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.
Seite 104 - Men in great place are thrice servants ; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.
Seite 36 - For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
Seite 286 - A man hath a body, and that body is confined to a place; but where friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise them by his friend.
Seite 345 - Discretion of speech is more than eloquence ; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
Seite 550 - Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice; and an overspeaking judge is no well tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar ; or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short, or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
Seite 86 - Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away: and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen: for charity will hardly water the ground, where it must first fill a pool.