Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... means read and inwardly digest every page of them ; but it would be the height of pedantry to recommend that anything like that should be done by all readers . Even if the entire body of Bacon's works could be produced at so small a ...
... means read and inwardly digest every page of them ; but it would be the height of pedantry to recommend that anything like that should be done by all readers . Even if the entire body of Bacon's works could be produced at so small a ...
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... means Burghley ] , who laboured by all industrious and secret means to suppress and keep him down ; lest , if he had risen , he might have obscured his glory . " According to Mr. Collier ( Egerton Papers , p . 269 ) , " there is some ...
... means Burghley ] , who laboured by all industrious and secret means to suppress and keep him down ; lest , if he had risen , he might have obscured his glory . " According to Mr. Collier ( Egerton Papers , p . 269 ) , " there is some ...
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... means have married and endowed the public . Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times , unto which they know they must transmit their dearest pledges . Some there are , who , though ...
... means have married and endowed the public . Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times , unto which they know they must transmit their dearest pledges . Some there are , who , though ...
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... means are less exhaust , yet on the other side they are more cruel and hard hearted ( good to make severe inquisi- tors ) , because their tenderness is not so often called upon . Grave natures , led by custom , and therefore constant ...
... means are less exhaust , yet on the other side they are more cruel and hard hearted ( good to make severe inquisi- tors ) , because their tenderness is not so often called upon . Grave natures , led by custom , and therefore constant ...
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... means as with great ; for otherwise , in feeding the streams thou driest the fountain . The Fourteenth , also contained in the edition of 1612 , is entitled ' Of Nobility , ' and is very short . We subjoin a few sentences of it : - A ...
... means as with great ; for otherwise , in feeding the streams thou driest the fountain . The Fourteenth , also contained in the edition of 1612 , is entitled ' Of Nobility , ' and is very short . We subjoin a few sentences of it : - A ...
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Página 41 - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Página 85 - 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.
Página 54 - IT were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose:
Página 85 - 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 need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 43 - THE joys of parents are 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 of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.
Página 57 - Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing. It is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall. It is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him. It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. But that which is specially to be noted is, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are sui amantes sine rivali, are many times unfortunate.
Página 53 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Página 32 - 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 53 - 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 79 - 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...