Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... appear to be , in the same state in which they must have been for the last two centuries ; handsome oak wainscot ... appears that Bacon had some time before applied to the Lord Treasurer to be called within the bar , or to be made what ...
... appear to be , in the same state in which they must have been for the last two centuries ; handsome oak wainscot ... appears that Bacon had some time before applied to the Lord Treasurer to be called within the bar , or to be made what ...
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... appear at what time Bacon received his nomination as Queen's Counsel . " Mr. Jardine adds , " He is said to have been the first King's Counsel under the degree of Sergeant . " We do not find that Mr. Montagu anywhere assigns a precise ...
... appear at what time Bacon received his nomination as Queen's Counsel . " Mr. Jardine adds , " He is said to have been the first King's Counsel under the degree of Sergeant . " We do not find that Mr. Montagu anywhere assigns a precise ...
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... appear in the title prefixed to the Meditationes Sacrae , ' it is evident that Windet was the printer for Hooper . " The first or general title - page shows clearly enough that the entire volume was printed for Hooper . Mr. Montagu also ...
... appear in the title prefixed to the Meditationes Sacrae , ' it is evident that Windet was the printer for Hooper . " The first or general title - page shows clearly enough that the entire volume was printed for Hooper . Mr. Montagu also ...
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... appear to have been generally known and read only in an English translation from the Latin . Thus , the writer of the Life of Bacon in the first edition of the Biogra- phia Britannica , published about the middle of the last century ...
... appear to have been generally known and read only in an English translation from the Latin . Thus , the writer of the Life of Bacon in the first edition of the Biogra- phia Britannica , published about the middle of the last century ...
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... appears forced or unnatural ; if it be the last that would occur to an ordinary thinker , it looks as if it were the first that had occurred to him . Much of this comes of the real originality of Bacon's manner of thinking ; but the ...
... appears forced or unnatural ; if it be the last that would occur to an ordinary thinker , it looks as if it were the first that had occurred to him . Much of this comes of the real originality of Bacon's manner of thinking ; but the ...
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Advancement of Learning affections amongst ancient aphorisms Apophthegms appear Aristotle atheism Augmentis Augustus Cæsar axioms Bacon better body Book Cæsar called cause Church Cicero colour conceived death discourse diurnal motion divers divine doctrine doth Duke of York earth edition English entitled Essays excellent experience fortune give Glassford hath heat History honour House of York human imagination instances Instauratio Magna invention judgment Julius Cæsar kind king king's knowledge labour Lambert Simnell Latin light likewise logic Lord majesty maketh man's manner matter means men's ment mind motion natural philosophy nature never Novum Organum observed opinion persons philosophy premisses princes principal published Rawley reason Resuscitatio saith sciences seemeth sense speak speech spirit syllogism Tacitus Tenison things thought tion touching translation true truth unto virtue wherein whereof wind wisdom wise words writings
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Página 54 - Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing. It is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall. It is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him. It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. But that which is specially to be noted is, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are sui amantes sine rivali, are many times unfortunate.
Página 72 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Página 65 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Página 28 - Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting.
Página 78 - 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 need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 36 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Página 38 - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Página 50 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion...
Página 59 - So as there is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self; and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.
Página 50 - ... but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity : nay, even that school which is most accused of atheism doth most demonstrate religion : that is, the school of Leucippus, and Democritus, and Epicurus, for it is a thousand times more credible that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions, or seeds unplaced, should have produced...