Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... former wife three sons and three daughters . Francis was the younger of two sons by the second marriage , the other being named Anthony . He was born in London , at his father's residence , called York House , * from having been ...
... former wife three sons and three daughters . Francis was the younger of two sons by the second marriage , the other being named Anthony . He was born in London , at his father's residence , called York House , * from having been ...
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... former place ; to James's first parliament , which met in 1603 , again for the same two places , when he elected , as before , to serve for Ipswich ; and to James's second parliament , which met in 1614 , for St. Alban's , for Ipswich ...
... former place ; to James's first parliament , which met in 1603 , again for the same two places , when he elected , as before , to serve for Ipswich ; and to James's second parliament , which met in 1614 , for St. Alban's , for Ipswich ...
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... former or in the beginning of the year 1599. It is in 12mo . , and the page is of a smaller size than in the former . Only the leaves , of which there are 50 , are numbered . It is not so neatly printed as the edition marked 1597 ; but ...
... former or in the beginning of the year 1599. It is in 12mo . , and the page is of a smaller size than in the former . Only the leaves , of which there are 50 , are numbered . It is not so neatly printed as the edition marked 1597 ; but ...
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... former to be new , whereas it corresponds in great part to the 1st of the latter ; and the 29th of the former to be new , whereas it is an extension of the 38th of the latter . That is , as we should now say , to misconstruction . To ...
... former to be new , whereas it corresponds in great part to the 1st of the latter ; and the 29th of the former to be new , whereas it is an extension of the 38th of the latter . That is , as we should now say , to misconstruction . To ...
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... former . " These last words may lead us to suspect that Jaggard's edition of 1606 ( supposed to be pirated ) had not been the only re - impression of the former Essays after their first appearance in 1597 or 1598 , although no other ...
... former . " These last words may lead us to suspect that Jaggard's edition of 1606 ( supposed to be pirated ) had not been the only re - impression of the former Essays after their first appearance in 1597 or 1598 , although no other ...
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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...