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... Sospetto licencia fede , as if Suspicion did give a passport to Faith ; but it ought rather to kindle it to discharge itself , XXXII Of Discourse SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation Essay 31 ] 117 Of Suspicion 31 Of ...
... Sospetto licencia fede , as if Suspicion did give a passport to Faith ; but it ought rather to kindle it to discharge itself , XXXII Of Discourse SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation Essay 31 ] 117 Of Suspicion 31 Of ...
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... commendation or wit , in being able to hold arguments , than of judgment , in discerning what is true . As if it were a praise to know what might be said , and not what should be thought . 5 Some have certain commonplaces and themes ...
... commendation or wit , in being able to hold arguments , than of judgment , in discerning what is true . As if it were a praise to know what might be said , and not what should be thought . 5 Some have certain commonplaces and themes ...
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... commendation of those they follow , are full of inconveniences . For they taint 15 business through want of secrecy ; and they export honour from a man , and make him a return in envy . There is a kind of followers , likewise , which ...
... commendation of those they follow , are full of inconveniences . For they taint 15 business through want of secrecy ; and they export honour from a man , and make him a return in envy . There is a kind of followers , likewise , which ...
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... commendation of men as it is in gettings and gains . 5 For the proverb is true , That light gains make heavy purses , for light gains come thick , whereas great come but now and then ; so it is true , that small matters win great ...
... commendation of men as it is in gettings and gains . 5 For the proverb is true , That light gains make heavy purses , for light gains come thick , whereas great come but now and then ; so it is true , that small matters win great ...
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... Secundus speaketh of , which is to be liberal of praise and commendation to others , in that wherein a man's self hath any perfection . For , saith Pliny , very wittingly , In commending another , you Essay 54 ] 197 Of Vain Glory.
... Secundus speaketh of , which is to be liberal of praise and commendation to others , in that wherein a man's self hath any perfection . For , saith Pliny , very wittingly , In commending another , you Essay 54 ] 197 Of Vain Glory.
Palavras e frases frequentes
affection alleys amongst ancient atheism Augustus Cæsar better beware body bold Cæsar cause Certainly Cicero cometh commendation commonly counsel counsellors cunning custom danger deal discontentment discourse dissimulation doth England envy Epicurus Epimetheus especially Essays factions fame favour fear fortune Galba garden give giveth goeth grace greatest ground hand hath haue honour hurt judge judgment Julius Cæsar Jupiter kind kings less likewise Lucullus maketh man's matter means men's mind motion nature never nobility noble observation opinion party persons plantation pleasure Plutarch poets Pompey princes profanum religion remedy reputation rest riches Romans saith secrecy secret seditions seemeth Sejanus Septimius Severus servants side sometimes sort Sparta speak speech suits sure Tacitus Themistocles things thou thought Tiberius tions true unto usury Vespasian virtue Vitellius whereas whereby wherein whereof wisdom wise
Passagens conhecidas
Página 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.
Página 185 - 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.
Página 184 - 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.
Página 1 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty...
Página 91 - 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.
Página 2 - 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 166 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Página 2 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Página 4 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it...
Página 186 - ... 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 again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find dif-ferences, 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, let him study the lawyers' cases:...