The Essays Or Councils, Civil & Moral: Of Francis BaconRoutledge and Sons, 1887 - 307 páginas |
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... man . Sir William Cecil , afterwards Lord Burleigh , and Sir Nicholas Bacon , Queen Elizabeth's Lord Keeper , married two daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke . Anne Cooke was the second wife of Sir Nicholas , who had six children by a former ...
... man . Sir William Cecil , afterwards Lord Burleigh , and Sir Nicholas Bacon , Queen Elizabeth's Lord Keeper , married two daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke . Anne Cooke was the second wife of Sir Nicholas , who had six children by a former ...
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... man's relation to this world , but the volume did not exclude the religious side of life , for that was added in twelve more essays , " Religious Meditations , " written in Latin , on such sub- jects as " The Works of God and Man ...
... man's relation to this world , but the volume did not exclude the religious side of life , for that was added in twelve more essays , " Religious Meditations , " written in Latin , on such sub- jects as " The Works of God and Man ...
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... man's nature . Its imperfection in himself made it also less easy for him to understand its operation in the minds of others . Bacon was not , what no being upon earth can be , as Pope called him , " the wisest , brightest , meanest of man ...
... man's nature . Its imperfection in himself made it also less easy for him to understand its operation in the minds of others . Bacon was not , what no being upon earth can be , as Pope called him , " the wisest , brightest , meanest of man ...
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... man's speech and actions that are due to the just influence of feeling , are so far essential to the right conduct of life , that whoever wants or avoids the prompting to them cannot live long without blundering very gravely more than ...
... man's speech and actions that are due to the just influence of feeling , are so far essential to the right conduct of life , that whoever wants or avoids the prompting to them cannot live long without blundering very gravely more than ...
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... man , conference a ready , and writing an exact man ; therefore , if a man write little , he had need of a great memory ; if he confer little , he had need of a present wit ; and if he read little , he had need have much cunning to seem ...
... man , conference a ready , and writing an exact man ; therefore , if a man write little , he had need of a great memory ; if he confer little , he had need of a present wit ; and if he read little , he had need have much cunning to seem ...
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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.