Essays, Civil and Moral: And The New AtlantisP.F. Collier & son, 1909 - 347 páginas |
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... stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of ...
... stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of ...
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... stand to think what should be in it , that men should love lies , where neither they make for pleasure , as with poets , nor for advantage , as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell ; this same truth is a naked ...
... stand to think what should be in it , that men should love lies , where neither they make for pleasure , as with poets , nor for advantage , as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell ; this same truth is a naked ...
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... stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of ...
... stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of ...
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... standing is slippery , and the re- gress is either a downfall , or at least an eclipse , which is a melancholy thing . Cum non sis qui fueris , non esse cur velis vivere [ When a man feels that he is no longer what he was , he has no ...
... standing is slippery , and the re- gress is either a downfall , or at least an eclipse , which is a melancholy thing . Cum non sis qui fueris , non esse cur velis vivere [ When a man feels that he is no longer what he was , he has no ...
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... stand at a stay ; like a stale at chess , where it is no mate , but yet the game cannot stir . But this last were fitter for a satire than for a serious observation . This is well to be weighed ; that boldness is ever blind ; for it ...
... stand at a stay ; like a stale at chess , where it is no mate , but yet the game cannot stir . But this last were fitter for a satire than for a serious observation . This is well to be weighed ; that boldness is ever blind ; for it ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
actions Æsop affection alleys amongst ancient AREOPAGITICA Aristotle arts atheists Augustus Cæsar behold Bensalem better body Cæsar cause certainly charity Christian church Cicero command common commonly conceive corruption Council of Trent counsel creatures custom danger death desire Devil discourse divers Divinity doth envy Epicurus Euripides evil fair faith fear fortune friends Galba garden give goeth ground hand happy hath Heaven Heresies honor Isocrates judgment Julius Cæsar kind kings learning less licensing likewise live maketh man's matter means men's mind motion nature never noble opinion persons piece Plato Plutarch Pompey prelates princes reason reformation RELIGIO MEDICI religion 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
Passagens conhecidas
Página 200 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 235 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Página 201 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous 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, kills the image of God as it were in the eye.
Página 210 - 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 18 - 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 15 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Página 201 - 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 42 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion...
Página 108 - Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold ; stir more than they can quiet ; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees ; pursue some few principles which they have chanced upon absurdly...
Página 5 - 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.