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... seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man , and not go along with him . " Of the translation of the Essays into Latin , Bacon thus speaks in a ...
... seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man , and not go along with him . " Of the translation of the Essays into Latin , Bacon thus speaks in a ...
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... seeking to puff his own productions ; if he omit to give the reference , the same caviller will charge him with seeking to pass off as new what had been published before . And again , a reader of this character , if he meet with a ...
... seeking to puff his own productions ; if he omit to give the reference , the same caviller will charge him with seeking to pass off as new what had been published before . And again , a reader of this character , if he meet with a ...
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... seeking . But if we either care not to be lovers of Truth , or take for granted that we are such , without taking any pains to acquire the habit , it is not likely that we ever shall acquire it . Many objections have been urged against ...
... seeking . But if we either care not to be lovers of Truth , or take for granted that we are such , without taking any pains to acquire the habit , it is not likely that we ever shall acquire it . Many objections have been urged against ...
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... seeking in every case for truth with an unprejudiced mind , the greatest difficulty still remains ; which arises from the confidence we are apt to feel that we have already done this , and have sought for truth with success . For every ...
... seeking in every case for truth with an unprejudiced mind , the greatest difficulty still remains ; which arises from the confidence we are apt to feel that we have already done this , and have sought for truth with success . For every ...
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... seek Christ in the conventicles of heretics , and others in an outward face of a church , that voice had need continually to sound in men's ears , ' Nolite exire . " The Doctor of the Gentiles ( the propriety of whose vocation3 drew him ...
... seek Christ in the conventicles of heretics , and others in an outward face of a church , that voice had need continually to sound in men's ears , ' Nolite exire . " The Doctor of the Gentiles ( the propriety of whose vocation3 drew him ...
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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?