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... appears in his scientific work . But it is unjust to regard the “ Essays ” as rep- resenting Bacon's ideal of conduct . They are rather a collec- tion of shrewd observations as to how , in fact , men do get on in life ; human nature ...
... appears in his scientific work . But it is unjust to regard the “ Essays ” as rep- resenting Bacon's ideal of conduct . They are rather a collec- tion of shrewd observations as to how , in fact , men do get on in life ; human nature ...
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... appear to be the same men till the last instant . Augustus Cæsar died in a compli- ment ; Livia , conjugii nostri memor , vive et vale [ Farewell , Livia ; and forget not the days of our marriage ] . Tiberius in dissimulation ; as ...
... appear to be the same men till the last instant . Augustus Cæsar died in a compli- ment ; Livia , conjugii nostri memor , vive et vale [ Farewell , Livia ; and forget not the days of our marriage ] . Tiberius in dissimulation ; as ...
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... appear to be two extremes . For to certain zealants all speech of pacification is odious . Is it peace , Jehu ? What hast thou to do with peace ? turn thee behind me . ' Peace is not the matter , but following and party . Contrariwise ...
... appear to be two extremes . For to certain zealants all speech of pacification is odious . Is it peace , Jehu ? What hast thou to do with peace ? turn thee behind me . ' Peace is not the matter , but following and party . Contrariwise ...
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... appear most in adversity . It is yet a higher speech of his than the other ( much too high for a heathen ) , It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man , and the security of a God . Vere magnum habere fragilitatem hominis ...
... appear most in adversity . It is yet a higher speech of his than the other ( much too high for a heathen ) , It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man , and the security of a God . Vere magnum habere fragilitatem hominis ...
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... well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved ; and therefore it was well said , That it is impossible to love and to be wise . Neither doth this weakness appear to others only , and not to the 28 THE ESSAYS OF FRANCIS BACON XI.
... well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved ; and therefore it was well said , That it is impossible to love and to be wise . Neither doth this weakness appear to others only , and not to the 28 THE ESSAYS OF FRANCIS BACON XI.
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actions affection amongst ancient AREOPAGITICA Aristotle arts atheists Augustus Cæsar beasts behold Bensalem better body Cæsar cause charity Christian church Cicero command common commonly conceive confess corruption Council of Trent counsel creatures custom danger death desire Devil discourse divers Divinity doth earth envy Epicurus Euripides evil eyes faith fear fortune FRANCIS BACON friends Galba give goeth hand happy hath Heaven Heresies honor Isocrates judgment Julius Cæsar kind king land learning less licensing likewise live maketh man's matter means men's mind miracle motion nature never noble opinion persons piece Plato Plutarch Pompey prelates princes reason RELIGIO MEDICI religion Roman saith Scripture secret servants side sort Soul speak speech spirit sure Tacitus things thou thought tion true truth unto usury Vespasian virtue whereby wherein whereof wisdom wise
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Página 125 - 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 208 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Página 199 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 20 - The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion ; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy.
Página 65 - 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 229 - The light which we have gained, was given us not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
Página 199 - It is true, no age can restore a life whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books...
Página 22 - He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Página 233 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy, and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Página 231 - Yet these are the men cried out against for schismatics and sectaries, as if, while the temple of the Lord was building, some cutting, some squaring the marble, others hewing the cedars, there should be a sort of irrational men, who could not consider there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber, ere the house of God can be built.