EssaysJ. B. Alden, 1883 - 217 páginas |
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... side . They will so beset a man with questions , and draw him on , and pick it out of him , that without an absurd silence , he must show an inclination one way ; or if he do not , they will gather as much by his silence as by his ...
... side . They will so beset a man with questions , and draw him on , and pick it out of him , that without an absurd silence , he must show an inclination one way ; or if he do not , they will gather as much by his silence as by his ...
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... side , they are more cruel and hard- hearted ( good to make severe inquisitors ) , because their tenderness is not so oft called upon . Grave natures , led by custom , and therefore constant , are commonly loving husbands , as was said ...
... side , they are more cruel and hard- hearted ( good to make severe inquisitors ) , because their tenderness is not so oft called upon . Grave natures , led by custom , and therefore constant , are commonly loving husbands , as was said ...
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... , he died , in the 70th year of his age , A.D. 1405. He was tall and corpulent in person , but was maimed in one hand , and lame on the right side . their equals when they are raised ; for it doth 32 BACON'S ESSAYS .
... , he died , in the 70th year of his age , A.D. 1405. He was tall and corpulent in person , but was maimed in one hand , and lame on the right side . their equals when they are raised ; for it doth 32 BACON'S ESSAYS .
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... side a man's self whilst he is in the rising , * Too great easiness of access . + Predilections that are undeserved . Proverbs xxviii . 21. The whole passage stands thus in our version : " He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be ...
... side a man's self whilst he is in the rising , * Too great easiness of access . + Predilections that are undeserved . Proverbs xxviii . 21. The whole passage stands thus in our version : " He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be ...
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... side , there is a natural malignity : for there be that in their nature do not affect the good of others . The lighter sort of malignity turneth but to a cross- ness , or frowardness , or aptness to oppose , or difficile- ness , or the ...
... side , there is a natural malignity : for there be that in their nature do not affect the good of others . The lighter sort of malignity turneth but to a cross- ness , or frowardness , or aptness to oppose , or difficile- ness , or the ...
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Página 6 - ... (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. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Página 177 - 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.
Página 20 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth...
Página 164 - And, because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Página 91 - 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 30 the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Página 46 - Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Página 97 - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Página 178 - 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 differences, 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 : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.
Página 19 - Christian : that Hercules, when he went to unbind Prometheus, by whom human nature is represented, sailed the length of the great ocean in an earthen pot or pitcher ; lively describing Christian resolution, that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world.
Página 152 - A MAN that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old ; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and as it were more divinely.