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... judges angry or pleased at his devotion . The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end . " It is very distressing to find that before long he became as distinguished for his moral weakness and servility as he had ...
... judges angry or pleased at his devotion . The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end . " It is very distressing to find that before long he became as distinguished for his moral weakness and servility as he had ...
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... judges into prostrating law at the King's feet he took a personal part . " But even his remonstrances were too much for Buckingham , who resolved to avert from himself the storm which was gathering by sacrificing his meaner dependants ...
... judges into prostrating law at the King's feet he took a personal part . " But even his remonstrances were too much for Buckingham , who resolved to avert from himself the storm which was gathering by sacrificing his meaner dependants ...
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... unmixed admiration or with unmixed contempt . But those only judge of him correctly who take in at one view Bacon in speculation and Bacon in action . They will have no difficulty in comprehending how one and the LIFE OF LORD BACON . xi.
... unmixed admiration or with unmixed contempt . But those only judge of him correctly who take in at one view Bacon in speculation and Bacon in action . They will have no difficulty in comprehending how one and the LIFE OF LORD BACON . xi.
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... judge itself , teacheth that 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 ...
... judge itself , teacheth that 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 ...
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... judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly , virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice , but adversity doth best ...
... judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly , virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice , but adversity doth best ...
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Essays Moral, Economical and Political Francis Bacon (Visct. St. Albans. Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2020 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
affection alleys amongst ancient atheism Augustus Cæsar Bacon Ben Jonson better beware body boldness Cæsar cause certainly Cicero command common commonly corrupt council counsel counsellors court cunning custom danger death discontentments discourse dissimulation doth England envy Epicurus especially factions fair fame favour fear flowers fortune friendship fruit Galba garden give giveth goeth grace Gray's Inn greatest ground hand hath heart honour hurt judge judgment Julius Cæsar justice kind king less likewise maketh man's matter means men's mind motion nature never nobility noble observation opinion persons plantation pleasure Plutarch Pompey princes profanum religion remedy riches Romans saith secrecy secret seditions seemeth Sejanus Septimius Severus servants shew side soldiers Solomon sometimes sort speak speech superstition sure Tacitus Themistocles things thou thought Tiberius tree true unto usury Vespasian virtue Vitellius whereby wherein whereof wise
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 162 - 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...
Seite 3 - ... in coin 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 20 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Seite 3 - 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 20 always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Seite 59 - Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Seite 163 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Seite 95 - A man cannot speak to his son but as a father ; to his wife but as a husband ; to his enemy but upon terms : whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Seite 18 - THE joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter ; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.
Seite 56 - For take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God, or 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 favor, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain.
Seite 91 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up, in the communicating and discoursing with another: he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.