The Essays of Lord BaconLongmans, Green & Company, 1873 - 240 Seiten |
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... ancients . But it is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in finding out of truth , nor again , that when it is found , it imposeth upon2 men's thoughts , that doth bring lies in favour ; but a natural , though corrupt ...
... ancients . But it is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in finding out of truth , nor again , that when it is found , it imposeth upon2 men's thoughts , that doth bring lies in favour ; but a natural , though corrupt ...
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... ancient poets ] Apollodorus , Stesichorus , & c . 4 Hercules , when he went , & c . ] Compare our author's Wisdom of the Ancients ( Prometheus ) : ' It is elegantly added , for the consolation and confirmation of men's minds , that this ...
... ancient poets ] Apollodorus , Stesichorus , & c . 4 Hercules , when he went , & c . ] Compare our author's Wisdom of the Ancients ( Prometheus ) : ' It is elegantly added , for the consolation and confirmation of men's minds , that this ...
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... ancient or recent , there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love : which shows that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion . You must except , nevertheless , Marcus Antonius , the half ...
... ancient or recent , there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love : which shows that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion . You must except , nevertheless , Marcus Antonius , the half ...
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... ancient time what is best ; and of the latter time what is fittest . Seek to make thy course regular ; 3 that men may know beforehand what they may expect : but be not too positive and peremptory ; and express thyself well * when thou ...
... ancient time what is best ; and of the latter time what is fittest . Seek to make thy course regular ; 3 that men may know beforehand what they may expect : but be not too positive and peremptory ; and express thyself well * when thou ...
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... ancient castle or building not in decay ; or to see a fair timber - tree sound and perfect ; how much more to behold an ancient noble family , which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time . For new nobility 1 Attempers ...
... ancient castle or building not in decay ; or to see a fair timber - tree sound and perfect ; how much more to behold an ancient noble family , which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time . For new nobility 1 Attempers ...
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actions Advancement affection alleys amongst ancient Apollonius of Tyana atheism Augustus Cæsar Bacon better body bold Cæsar called cause Certainly Cicero command commonly corrupt counsel counsellors cunning custom danger death Dion Cassius discourse dissimulation Domitian doth England envy Epicurus Epimetheus Essay Estate evil exercise fame favour fear fortune friendship Galba garden give goeth grace greatest ground hand hath Henry HENRY VI honour humour judge judgment Julius Cæsar kind King Latin less likewise Livy Lucullus maketh man's matter means men's mind motion nature never nobility noble observation opinion persons plantation pleasure Plutarch poets Pompey Princes religion riches Roman saith says secret seditions seemeth servants Shakspeare's side sometimes sort speak speech Suetonius superstition sure Sylla Tacitus Themistocles things thou thought true unto usury Vespasian virtue wherein whereof wise words
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Seite 195 - 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 5 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Seite 195 - 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; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Seite 196 - ... is good for the stone and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast ; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin : if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores : if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another,...
Seite 41 - 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. 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.
Seite 4 - 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.
Seite 106 - 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.
Seite 21 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart, by the pleasure of the eye.
Seite 113 - Heraclitus saith well, in one of his enigmas, " Dry light is ever the best," and certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment; which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
Seite 38 - You may observe that amongst all the great and worthy persons (whereof the memory remaineth, either ancient or recent) there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love: which shows that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion.