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... opinion . Much the same is to be said touching the part sustained by Bacon after the execution . Essex was something of a favourite with the people , and his fate drew forth some marks of popular odium against the Queen . It was deemed ...
... opinion . Much the same is to be said touching the part sustained by Bacon after the execution . Essex was something of a favourite with the people , and his fate drew forth some marks of popular odium against the Queen . It was deemed ...
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... opinion that it was not treason . " In June , 1616 , Bacon was made a member of the Privy Council , and was formally congratulated thereupon by the University of Cambridge , which he then represented in Parliament . In March , 1617 ...
... opinion that it was not treason . " In June , 1616 , Bacon was made a member of the Privy Council , and was formally congratulated thereupon by the University of Cambridge , which he then represented in Parliament . In March , 1617 ...
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... opinion , order , or good intention . This is a thing may seem to many a matter trivial , and done already ; but if it were done less partially , it would be embraced more generally . 9 Of this I may give only this advice , according to ...
... opinion , order , or good intention . This is a thing may seem to many a matter trivial , and done already ; but if it were done less partially , it would be embraced more generally . 9 Of this I may give only this advice , according to ...
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... opinion soever at any time entered into their heads , their use was to think the Spirit taught it them . " And again : " These men , in whose mouths at the first sounded noth- ing but only mortification of the flesh , were come at the ...
... opinion soever at any time entered into their heads , their use was to think the Spirit taught it them . " And again : " These men , in whose mouths at the first sounded noth- ing but only mortification of the flesh , were come at the ...
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... opinion or course , profess it plainly , and declare it , together with the reasons that move thee to change , and do not think to steal it . A servant or a favourite , if he be inward , 1 and no other apparent cause of esteem , is ...
... opinion or course , profess it plainly , and declare it , together with the reasons that move thee to change , and do not think to steal it . A servant or a favourite , if he be inward , 1 and no other apparent cause of esteem , is ...
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Alice Barnham ancient anger atheism Augustus Cæsar Bacon better bold called cause Certainly charity Christian Church Cicero commanded commonly conceit contemplation corrupt counsel court custom death discourse Divine doth Epicurus Epimenides error Essex excellent faith favour fear fortune FRANCIS BACON fruit of friendship giveth God's goeth Gray's Inn hath heart heathen holy honour human judge judgment Julius Cæsar keeper of promise kind King knowledge Latin learning Lord Keeper Lucretius maketh man's matter means men's mind moral nature never observe opinion Parliament persons philosophy pleasure Plutarch poets princes Queen reason religion revenge riches saith schoolmen Scripture sense Septimius Severus servants Shakespeare sometimes sort speak speech superstition Surely suspicion Tacitus thereof things thou thought Tiberius tions Troilus and Cressida true truth unto Vespasian virtue wherein wisdom wise words
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Página 611 - 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 subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 611 - 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 624 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their...
Página 571 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Página 592 - 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 589 - It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Página 592 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo ; " because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...
Página 589 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end...
Página 590 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Página 577 - For corruption, do not only bind thine own hands or thy servants' hands from taking, but bind the hands of suitors also from offering ; for integrity used doth the one ; but integrity professed, and with a manifest detestation of bribery, doth the other ; and avoid not only the fault, but the suspicion.