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... greater blasphemy to personate God , and bring him in saying , ' I will descend , and be like the prince of darkness ' : and what is it better , to make the cause of religion to descend to the cruel and execrable actions of murdering ...
... greater blasphemy to personate God , and bring him in saying , ' I will descend , and be like the prince of darkness ' : and what is it better , to make the cause of religion to descend to the cruel and execrable actions of murdering ...
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... in morals is the more heroical virtue . Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New , which carrieth the ESSAY V. greater benediction , and the clearer revelation Of OF ADVERSITY 19.
... in morals is the more heroical virtue . Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New , which carrieth the ESSAY V. greater benediction , and the clearer revelation Of OF ADVERSITY 19.
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Francis Bacon. ESSAY V. greater benediction , and the clearer revelation Of Adversity . of God's favour . Yet even in the Old Testa- ment , if you listen to David's harp , you shall hear as many hearse - like airs as carols ; and the ...
Francis Bacon. ESSAY V. greater benediction , and the clearer revelation Of Adversity . of God's favour . Yet even in the Old Testa- ment , if you listen to David's harp , you shall hear as many hearse - like airs as carols ; and the ...
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... greater pains ; and it is sometimes Place . base , and by indignities men come to dignities . The standing is slippery , and the regress is either a downfall , or at least an eclipse , which is a melancholy thing : ' Since you are not ...
... greater pains ; and it is sometimes Place . base , and by indignities men come to dignities . The standing is slippery , and the regress is either a downfall , or at least an eclipse , which is a melancholy thing : ' Since you are not ...
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... greater than the feeling : ' To grief there is a limit , not so to fear . ' Be- sides , in great oppressions , the same things that provoke the patience do withal mate the courage ; but in fears it is not so . Neither let any prince or ...
... greater than the feeling : ' To grief there is a limit , not so to fear . ' Be- sides , in great oppressions , the same things that provoke the patience do withal mate the courage ; but in fears it is not so . Neither let any prince or ...
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actions adversity affections amongst ancient atheism Augustus Caesar better beware body bold Caesar cause certainly Cicero cometh commonly corrupt council counsel counsellors custom danger death discontentments discourse dispatch dissimulation doth Empire envy Epicurus Epimetheus ESSAY IX ESSAY LVIII ESSAY XV ESSAY XXVII evil fame favour fear fortune fruit of friendship Galba garden give giveth goeth greatest ground hath heart honour humours hurt judgment keeper of promise kind kings less likewise maketh man's matter means men's mind motion nature ness of Kingdoms never nobility noble opinion persons plantation pleasure Plutarch Pompey princes religion remedy revenge riches saith secrecy secret Seditions seemeth Sejanus Septimius Severus servants side simulation sometimes sort speak speech superstition sure Tacitus things thou thought Tiberius tion Troubles true truth Unity unto usury Vespasian virtue wherein whereof wisdom wise
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 235 - 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. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Seite 233 - 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 3 - ... 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 20 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Seite 126 - ... 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.
Seite 71 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Seite 234 - To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience...
Seite 215 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
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 always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Seite 13 - A man that is of judgment and understanding shall sometimes hear ignorant men differ, and know well within himself that those which so differ mean one thing, and yet they themselves would never agree; and if it come so to pass in that distance of judgment, which is between man and man, shall we not think that God above, that knows the heart, doth not discern that frail men, in some of their contradictions, intend the same thing, and accepteth of both?