Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott. Text only, with index |
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... secret man heareth many confessions ; for who will open himself to a blab or a babbler ? But if a man be thought secret , it inviteth 45 discovery , as the more close air sucketh in the more open . And , as in confession the revealing ...
... secret man heareth many confessions ; for who will open himself to a blab or a babbler ? But if a man be thought secret , it inviteth 45 discovery , as the more close air sucketh in the more open . And , as in confession the revealing ...
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... secret , must be a dissembler in some degree . For men are too cunning to suffer a man to keep an in- different carriage between both , and to be secret , without 70 swaying the balance on either side . They will so beset a man with ...
... secret , must be a dissembler in some degree . For men are too cunning to suffer a man to keep an in- different carriage between both , and to be secret , without 70 swaying the balance on either side . They will so beset a man with ...
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... 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 5 of life , but they mitigate the ...
... 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 5 of life , but they mitigate the ...
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... secret contempt . By how much the more , men ought to beware of this passion , which loseth not only other things , but itself . As for the other losses , the poet's relation doth well figure them that he that preferred Helena , quitted ...
... secret contempt . By how much the more , men ought to beware of this passion , which loseth not only other things , but itself . As for the other losses , the poet's relation doth well figure them that he that preferred Helena , quitted ...
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... secret inclination and 60 motion towards love of others , which , if it be not spent upon some one or a few , doth naturally spread itself towards many , and maketh men become humane and charitable , as it is seen sometime in friars ...
... secret inclination and 60 motion towards love of others , which , if it be not spent upon some one or a few , doth naturally spread itself towards many , and maketh men become humane and charitable , as it is seen sometime in friars ...
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:...