The Essays Or Councils, Civil & Moral: Of Francis BaconRoutledge and Sons, 1887 - 307 páginas |
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... follow his motion , let it be with condition ; if you allow his counsel , let it be with alleging farther reason . IV . OF FOLLOWERS AND FRIENDS . COSTLY followers are not to be liked , least while a man maketh his train longer he ...
... follow his motion , let it be with condition ; if you allow his counsel , let it be with alleging farther reason . IV . OF FOLLOWERS AND FRIENDS . COSTLY followers are not to be liked , least while a man maketh his train longer he ...
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... to thyself as well to create good precedents as to follow them . things to the first institution , and observe wherein and how they have degenerate ; but yet ask Reduce Seek to counsel of both times : of the ancient 80 OF GREAT PLACE .
... to thyself as well to create good precedents as to follow them . things to the first institution , and observe wherein and how they have degenerate ; but yet ask Reduce Seek to counsel of both times : of the ancient 80 OF GREAT PLACE .
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... follow me . " But sell not all thou hast , except thou come and follow me , that is , except thou have a vocation , wherein thou mayest do as much good with little means as with great ; for otherwise in feeding the streams thou driest ...
... follow me . " But sell not all thou hast , except thou come and follow me , that is , except thou have a vocation , wherein thou mayest do as much good with little means as with great ; for otherwise in feeding the streams thou driest ...
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... follow that because these fames are a sign of troubles , that the suppressing of them with too much severity should be a remedy of troubles . For the despising of them many times checks them best , and the going about to stop them doth ...
... follow that because these fames are a sign of troubles , that the suppressing of them with too much severity should be a remedy of troubles . For the despising of them many times checks them best , and the going about to stop them doth ...
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... follow fools , and arguments are fitted to practise in a reversed order . It was gravely said by some of the prelates in the Council of Trent , where the doctrine of the schoolmen bear great sway , “ That the schoolmen were like ...
... follow fools , and arguments are fitted to practise in a reversed order . It was gravely said by some of the prelates in the Council of Trent , where the doctrine of the schoolmen bear great sway , “ That the schoolmen were like ...
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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.