Twenty of Bacon's essays, ed. by F. Storr |
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... look not for it , then exclude them when they have reason to look to be called . Be not too sensible or too remembering of thy place in conversation and private answers to suitors , but let it rather be said : " When he sits in place ...
... look not for it , then exclude them when they have reason to look to be called . Be not too sensible or too remembering of thy place in conversation and private answers to suitors , but let it rather be said : " When he sits in place ...
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... look abroad little . It is a strange thing that , in sea voyages , where there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea , men should make diaries ; but in land travel , wherein so much is to be observed , for the most part they omit it ...
... look abroad little . It is a strange thing that , in sea voyages , where there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea , men should make diaries ; but in land travel , wherein so much is to be observed , for the most part they omit it ...
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... look when they are turned into words - finally , he waxeth wiser than himself ; 58 and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's medita- tion . It was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia : 59 " That speech was like ...
... look when they are turned into words - finally , he waxeth wiser than himself ; 58 and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's medita- tion . It was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia : 59 " That speech was like ...
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... look sometimes into a glass , and presently forget their own shape and favour . " 7 ° As for business , a man may think , if he will , that two eyes see no more than one ; or , that a gamester seeth always more than a looker - on ; or ...
... look sometimes into a glass , and presently forget their own shape and favour . " 7 ° As for business , a man may think , if he will , that two eyes see no more than one ; or , that a gamester seeth always more than a looker - on ; or ...
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... look upon men and matters with an evil eye , and are best pleased when things go backward , which is the worst property in a servant of a prince or state . Therefore , it is good for princes , if they use ambitious men , to handle it5 ...
... look upon men and matters with an evil eye , and are best pleased when things go backward , which is the worst property in a servant of a prince or state . Therefore , it is good for princes , if they use ambitious men , to handle it5 ...
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Seite 2 - ... of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Seite 4 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death ; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, '' Nunc dimittis" when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Seite 2 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Seite 1 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies : where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.
Seite 4 - REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Seite 2 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below :'' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Seite 25 - The second fruit of friendship is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the affections; for friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts: neither is this to be understood only of faithful counsel, which a man receiveth from his friend; but before you come to that, certain it is, that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding...
Seite 15 - ... as the place deserveth, but not long ; nay, when he stayeth in one city or town, let him change his lodging from one end and part of the town to another, which is a great adamant of acquaintance ; let him sequester himself from the company of his countrymen, and diet in such places where there is good company of the nation where he travelleth...
Seite 35 - All practice is to discover, or to work. Men discover themselves in trust, in passion, at unawares ; and of necessity, when they would have somewhat done, and cannot find an apt pretext. If you would work any man, you must either know his nature and fashions, and so lead him ; or his ends, and so persuade him ; or his weakness and disadvantages, and so awe him ; or those that have interest in him, and so govern him.
Seite xii - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.