Bacon's EssaysLee and Shepard, 1874 - 641 Seiten |
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... greater than it is ; and that much of what they now admire as originality and profound wisdom , would appear , if translated into common language , to be mere common - place · It is worth observing that this writer , as well as very ...
... greater than it is ; and that much of what they now admire as originality and profound wisdom , would appear , if translated into common language , to be mere common - place · It is worth observing that this writer , as well as very ...
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... greater influence every day on popular literature . It has been zeal- ously instilled into the minds of many , that Germany has something far more profound to supply than anything hitherto extant in our native literature ; though what ...
... greater influence every day on popular literature . It has been zeal- ously instilled into the minds of many , that Germany has something far more profound to supply than anything hitherto extant in our native literature ; though what ...
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... greater works , and of the mistakes - which are not few or unimportant -that prevail respecting them , would be altogether unsuited to this Work . But it may be worth while to introduce two brief remarks on the subject . ( 1. ) The ...
... greater works , and of the mistakes - which are not few or unimportant -that prevail respecting them , would be altogether unsuited to this Work . But it may be worth while to introduce two brief remarks on the subject . ( 1. ) The ...
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... , and correctly deducing , and rightly employing , general principles , will be perhaps greater than their ignorance of facts . Now , to attempt remedying this defect by imparting to them additional knowl- edge xxvi PREFACE .
... , and correctly deducing , and rightly employing , general principles , will be perhaps greater than their ignorance of facts . Now , to attempt remedying this defect by imparting to them additional knowl- edge xxvi PREFACE .
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... greater works is , that he does not rank high as a ' Natural - philosopher . ' His genius lay another way ; not in the direct pursuit of Phy- sical Science , but in discerning and correcting the errors of philosophers , and laying down ...
... greater works is , that he does not rank high as a ' Natural - philosopher . ' His genius lay another way ; not in the direct pursuit of Phy- sical Science , but in discerning and correcting the errors of philosophers , and laying down ...
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Seite 468 - 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 468 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Seite 429 - 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.
Seite 545 - Judges ought to be more learned than witty ; more reverend than plausible ; and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Seite 438 - 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...
Seite 478 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Seite 341 - 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 153 - ... but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity. Nay, even that school which is most accused of atheism doth most demonstrate religion; that is, the school of Leucippus and Democritus and Epicurus. For it is a thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions or seeds unplaced, should have produced this...
Seite 574 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Seite 155 - melior natura;" which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith, which human nature in itself could not obtain...