The Essays Or Councils, Civil & Moral: Of Francis BaconRoutledge and Sons, 1887 - 307 páginas |
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Of Francis Bacon Francis Bacon. 14763.14.10 Fifteen Volumes in an Oak Bookcase VERO TAS HARVARD COLLEGE " Marvels o -Daily Telegrapi LIBRARY UNIVERSAL LIBRARY In Monthly Volumes , ONE SHILLING Each . READY ON THE 25th OF EACH MONTH ...
Of Francis Bacon Francis Bacon. 14763.14.10 Fifteen Volumes in an Oak Bookcase VERO TAS HARVARD COLLEGE " Marvels o -Daily Telegrapi LIBRARY UNIVERSAL LIBRARY In Monthly Volumes , ONE SHILLING Each . READY ON THE 25th OF EACH MONTH ...
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Of Francis Bacon Francis Bacon. SHERIDAN'S PLAYS . PLAYS FROM MOLIERE . By English Dramatists . MARLOWE'S FAUSTUS AND GOETHE'S FAUST . CHRONICLE OF THE CID . RABELAIS ' GARGANTUA , AND THE HEROIC DEEDS OF PANTAGRUEL . THE PRINCE . By ...
Of Francis Bacon Francis Bacon. SHERIDAN'S PLAYS . PLAYS FROM MOLIERE . By English Dramatists . MARLOWE'S FAUSTUS AND GOETHE'S FAUST . CHRONICLE OF THE CID . RABELAIS ' GARGANTUA , AND THE HEROIC DEEDS OF PANTAGRUEL . THE PRINCE . By ...
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Of Francis Bacon Francis Bacon. 23. IDEAL COMMONWEALTHS : MORE'S UTO BACON'S NEW ATLANTIS ; AND CAMPANE CITY OF THE SUN . 24. CAVENDISH'S LIFE OF WOLSEY . 25 and 26. DON QUIXOTE ( Two Volumes ) . 27. BURLESQUE PLAYS AND POEMS . 28 ...
Of Francis Bacon Francis Bacon. 23. IDEAL COMMONWEALTHS : MORE'S UTO BACON'S NEW ATLANTIS ; AND CAMPANE CITY OF THE SUN . 24. CAVENDISH'S LIFE OF WOLSEY . 25 and 26. DON QUIXOTE ( Two Volumes ) . 27. BURLESQUE PLAYS AND POEMS . 28 ...
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Of Francis Bacon Francis Bacon. OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL OF FRANCIS BACON FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1597 , AND AS HE LEFT THEM NEWLY WRITTEN WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY MORLEY LL.D. , PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ...
Of Francis Bacon Francis Bacon. OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL OF FRANCIS BACON FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1597 , AND AS HE LEFT THEM NEWLY WRITTEN WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY MORLEY LL.D. , PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ...
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Of Francis Bacon Francis Bacon. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF MR . ROBERT LUCE MORLEY'S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY . " Marvels of clear type and general neatness . " - Daily Telegraph . INTRODUCTION . FRANCIS BACON was born three years before ...
Of Francis Bacon Francis Bacon. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF MR . ROBERT LUCE MORLEY'S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY . " Marvels of clear type and general neatness . " - Daily Telegraph . INTRODUCTION . FRANCIS BACON was born three years before ...
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Página 266 - 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, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend...
Página 38 - 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 37 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Página 146 - 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 154 - 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 80 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring ; for good thoughts (though God accept them), yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act ; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Página 38 - ... it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Página 40 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it...
Página 52 - But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: " Shall we," saith he, " take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also ? " and so of friends in a proportion.
Página 41 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, 'Nunc dimittis' when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.