The Essays Or Councils, Civil & Moral: Of Francis BaconRoutledge and Sons, 1887 - 307 páginas |
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... favour with the Queen . Bacon , thirty- three years old , sought advance in his profession to the office of Attorney- General . The Queen gave it to Sir Edward Coke , who was already Solicitor - General , was nine years older than Bacon ...
... favour with the Queen . Bacon , thirty- three years old , sought advance in his profession to the office of Attorney- General . The Queen gave it to Sir Edward Coke , who was already Solicitor - General , was nine years older than Bacon ...
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... favour shown to any prisoner ; so many digressions , such delivering of evi- dence by fractions , and so silly a defence of such great and notorious treasons . On the 25th of February , 1601 , Essex was beheaded within the Tower ; and ...
... favour shown to any prisoner ; so many digressions , such delivering of evi- dence by fractions , and so silly a defence of such great and notorious treasons . On the 25th of February , 1601 , Essex was beheaded within the Tower ; and ...
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... favours to use men with much difference and election is good , for it maketh the persons preferred more thankful and the rest affectious , because all is of favour . It is good not to make too much of any man at first , because one ...
... favours to use men with much difference and election is good , for it maketh the persons preferred more thankful and the rest affectious , because all is of favour . It is good not to make too much of any man at first , because one ...
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... favour the wrong side , in justice rather let him use his countenance to compound the matter than to carry it ; if affection lead a man to favour the less worthy in desert , let him do without depraving or disabling the better deserver ...
... favour the wrong side , in justice rather let him use his countenance to compound the matter than to carry it ; if affection lead a man to favour the less worthy in desert , let him do without depraving or disabling the better deserver ...
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... favour , but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself . One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter , and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies , where neither they make for ...
... favour , but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself . One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter , and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies , where neither they make for ...
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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.