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Página ix
... admiration of Bacon's profundity increasing as he himself grows intellectually . Bacon's wisdom is like the seven - league boots , which would fit the giant or the dwarf , except only that the dwarf cannot take the same stride in them ...
... admiration of Bacon's profundity increasing as he himself grows intellectually . Bacon's wisdom is like the seven - league boots , which would fit the giant or the dwarf , except only that the dwarf cannot take the same stride in them ...
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... admiration writers of a completely opposite character ; those of a mystical , dim , half- intelligible kind of affected grandeur . ' It is well known what a reproach to our climate is the prevalence of fogs , and how much more of risk ...
... admiration writers of a completely opposite character ; those of a mystical , dim , half- intelligible kind of affected grandeur . ' It is well known what a reproach to our climate is the prevalence of fogs , and how much more of risk ...
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... admiration . 6 One may often hear some writers of the ' magic - lanthorn school ' spoken of as possessing wonderful power , even by those who regret that this power is not better employed . ' It is pity , ' we sometimes hear it said ...
... admiration . 6 One may often hear some writers of the ' magic - lanthorn school ' spoken of as possessing wonderful power , even by those who regret that this power is not better employed . ' It is pity , ' we sometimes hear it said ...
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... admired writers , may be compared to a fog - bank at sea , which the navigator at first glance takes for a chain of majestic mountains , but which , when approached closely , or when viewed through a good glass , proves to be a mere ...
... admired writers , may be compared to a fog - bank at sea , which the navigator at first glance takes for a chain of majestic mountains , but which , when approached closely , or when viewed through a good glass , proves to be a mere ...
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... admired or liked , or indeed understood , except by those who possess it . But Truth , as Bacon says , ' only doth judge itself , ' and , howsoever these things are in men's depraved judgments and affections , it teacheth that the ...
... admired or liked , or indeed understood , except by those who possess it . But Truth , as Bacon says , ' only doth judge itself , ' and , howsoever these things are in men's depraved judgments and affections , it teacheth that the ...
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admiration advantage Æsop ancient ANNOTATIONS ANTITHETA Aristotle atheists Augustus Cæsar Bacon believe better Bishop Butler Cæsar called cause character christian Church common commonly counsel course cunning custom danger divine doth doubt Edinburgh Review effect envy error ESSAY evil favour feel Galba give goeth hath Hollyoaks honour human important instance judge judgment Julius Cæsar keep kind King King Henry VII knowledge labour learning less Lord maketh man's matter means men's ment merely mind moral nature never object observed opinion opposite party perceive perhaps persons Plut Plutarch Pompey practice princes principle proverb racter reason regard religion remarkable respect rich Roman saith Scripture sense side sometimes speak supposed sure Tacitus Themistocles things thou thought Thucydides tion true truth unto usury virtue wealth wisdom wise witness words writing
Passagens conhecidas
Página 416 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Página 155 - Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Página 15 - 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.
Página 2 - ... 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 287 - A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.
Página 281 - ... 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 2 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
Página 3 - ... in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth 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 473 - 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 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?