The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis BaconG. Routledge and Sons, 1888 - 307 páginas |
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... side of life , for that was added in twelve more essays , " Religious Meditations , " written in Latin , on such sub- jects as " The Works of God and Man ; " " The Miracles of our Saviour ; " Earthly Hope ; " " The Exaltation of Charity ...
... side of life , for that was added in twelve more essays , " Religious Meditations , " written in Latin , on such sub- jects as " The Works of God and Man ; " " The Miracles of our Saviour ; " Earthly Hope ; " " The Exaltation of Charity ...
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... side , in justice rather let him use his countenance to compound the matter than to carry it ; if affection lead a man to favour the less worthy in desert , let him do without depraving or disabling the better deserver ; in suits which ...
... side , in justice rather let him use his countenance to compound the matter than to carry it ; if affection lead a man to favour the less worthy in desert , let him do without depraving or disabling the better deserver ; in suits which ...
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... side . They will so beset a man with questions , and draw him on , and pick it out of him , that with- out an absurd silence he must show an inclination one way ; or , if he do not , they will gather as much by his silence as by his ...
... side . They will so beset a man with questions , and draw him on , and pick it out of him , that with- out an absurd silence he must show an inclination one way ; or , if he do not , they will gather as much by his silence as by his ...
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... side , they are more cruel and hard - hearted ( good to make severe in- quisitors ) because their tenderness is not so oft called upon . Grave natures , led by custom , and therefore constant , are commonly loving husbands , as was said ...
... side , they are more cruel and hard - hearted ( good to make severe in- quisitors ) because their tenderness is not so oft called upon . Grave natures , led by custom , and therefore constant , are commonly loving husbands , as was said ...
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... side a man's self whilst he is in the rising , and to balance himself when he is placed . Use the memory of thy predecessor fairly and tenderly ; for if thou dost not it is a debt will sure be paid when thou art gone . If thou have ...
... side a man's self whilst he is in the rising , and to balance himself when he is placed . Use the memory of thy predecessor fairly and tenderly ; for if thou dost not it is a debt will sure be paid when thou art gone . If thou have ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Æsop affection alleys amongst ancient ANDREW MEIKLE atheism Augustus Cæsar Bacon better beware body bold Cæsar cause Certainly Cicero cloth cometh commend common commonly counsel counsellors cunning custom danger deal discourse dissimulation doth envy Epicurus Essays factions fame favour Fcap flowers fortune Francis Bacon Galba garden gilt edges give giveth goeth grace greatest ground HARRISON WEIR hath honour humour hurt Illustrations J. G. WOOD judge judgment Julius Cæsar kind kings less likewise maketh man's matter means men's mind motion nature never nobility noble observation opinion Pages of Coloured party persons plantation pleasure Plutarch poets Pompey praise princes Queen religion riches saith secret seditions seemeth Septimius Severus servants side sometimes sort speak speech suits sure suspicion Tacitus things thou thought Tiberius tion true unto usury Vespasian virtue Vitellius wars wherein whereof wisdom wise
Passagens conhecidas
Página 38 - But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth 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 nature.
Página 158 - Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts: but one thing is most admirable, (wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship,) which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in...
Página 104 - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the " Legend," and the " Talmud," and the " Alcoran" than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Página 38 - ... a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. 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. But I cannot tell; this same truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights.
Página 107 - 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. i io OF ATHEISM. 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.
Página 41 - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man." Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men; it being foretold that, when " Christ cometh," He shall not "find faith upon the Earth.
Página 191 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked, condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant ; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues » and not fall to work, but be lazy and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country, to the discredit of the plantation.
Página 55 - 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.
Página 154 - 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. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : Magna civitas, magna solitudj; because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship for the most part which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go further and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true...
Página 22 - THERE is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic : a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health. But it is a safer conclusion to say, This agreeth not well with me, therefore I will not continue it, than this, I find no offence of this, therefore I may use it.