Essays: And Wisdom of the AncientsLittle, Brown, 1884 - 425 páginas |
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Página xiv
... doth best discover vice , but adversity doth best discover virtue . ” The Essays were immediately translated into French and Italian , and into Latin , by some of his friends , amongst whom were Hacket , Bishop of Lichfield , and his ...
... doth best discover vice , but adversity doth best discover virtue . ” The Essays were immediately translated into French and Italian , and into Latin , by some of his friends , amongst whom were Hacket , Bishop of Lichfield , and his ...
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... doth fall out sometimes with great felicity ; as in the fable that the giants being overthrown in their war against the gods , the earth , their mother , in revenge thereof brought forth Fame , Illam Terra parens , irâ irritata Deorum ...
... doth fall out sometimes with great felicity ; as in the fable that the giants being overthrown in their war against the gods , the earth , their mother , in revenge thereof brought forth Fame , Illam Terra parens , irâ irritata Deorum ...
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... doth it move us that these matters are left commonly to school - boys and grammarians , and so are embased , that we should therefore make a slight judgment upon them , but contrariwise , because it is clear that the writings which ...
... doth it move us that these matters are left commonly to school - boys and grammarians , and so are embased , that we should therefore make a slight judgment upon them , but contrariwise , because it is clear that the writings which ...
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... doth the one ; but integrity professed , and with a manifest detestation of bribery , doth the other ; and avoid not only the fault , but the suspicion . " He says again , in the same Essay : " Set it down to thyself , as well to create ...
... doth the one ; but integrity professed , and with a manifest detestation of bribery , doth the other ; and avoid not only the fault , but the suspicion . " He says again , in the same Essay : " Set it down to thyself , as well to create ...
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... doth bring lies in favor ; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself . One of the later schools 2 of the Grecians examin- 1 He refers to the following passage in the Gospel of St. John , xviii . 38 : " Pilate saith unto him ...
... doth bring lies in favor ; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself . One of the later schools 2 of the Grecians examin- 1 He refers to the following passage in the Gospel of St. John , xviii . 38 : " Pilate saith unto him ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Achelous actions affection alludes amongst ancient Arthur Gorges arts atheism Augustus Cæsar beautiful better body boldness Cæsar called cause Certainly commonly corruption counsel court custom danger death denotes dissimulation divine doth earth England envy Epicurus Essays evil fame favor fear fortune Francis Bacon gods hand hath Henry Hippomenes honor human Instauratio Magna invented judge judgment Julius Cæsar Jupiter justice justly kind kings Latin likewise Lord Bacon maketh man's mankind matter means men's ment mind moral motion natural philosophy nature never noble Novum Organum observed opinion Ovid passion Pentheus persons philosophy pleasure poets princes Prometheus Queen's Counsel reason received religion revenge riches saith secret servants side speak speech Tacitus thereof things thou thought Tiberius tion true truth unto usury Vespasian virtue whence wisdom wise words
Passagens conhecidas
Página 27 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Página 267 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 56 - One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt such as we spake of before.
Página 240 - There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions, the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent.
Página 58 - 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 266 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Página 57 - ... 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 59 - ... 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 66 - AND unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write • These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God ; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot : I would thou wert cold or hot.
Página 168 - ... 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.