Essays: And Wisdom of the AncientsLittle, Brown, 1884 - 425 páginas |
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... Pleasures . Explained of Men's Pas- sion for Pleasures 1 I PREFACE . In the early part of the CONTENTS . ix.
... Pleasures . Explained of Men's Pas- sion for Pleasures 1 I PREFACE . In the early part of the CONTENTS . ix.
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... it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge , therefore , of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye PREFACE . xiii.
... it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge , therefore , of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye PREFACE . xiii.
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And Wisdom of the Ancients Francis Bacon. pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Cer- tainly , virtue is like precious odors , most fragrant when they are incensed , or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice , but ...
And Wisdom of the Ancients Francis Bacon. pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Cer- tainly , virtue is like precious odors , most fragrant when they are incensed , or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice , but ...
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... Pleasures , may be selected as a specimen . Of In this fable he explains the common but erroneous supposition that knowledge and the conformity of the will , knowing and acting , are convertible terms . this error , he , in his essay of ...
... Pleasures , may be selected as a specimen . Of In this fable he explains the common but erroneous supposition that knowledge and the conformity of the will , knowing and acting , are convertible terms . this error , he , in his essay of ...
Página xxiv
... pleasure . " The following is the account of the different editions of this work : The first was published in 1609. In Feb- ruary 27 , 1610 , Lord Bacon wrote to Mr. Mathew , upon sending his book De Sapientia Veterum : — “ MR . MATHEW ...
... pleasure . " The following is the account of the different editions of this work : The first was published in 1609. In Feb- ruary 27 , 1610 , Lord Bacon wrote to Mr. Mathew , upon sending his book De Sapientia Veterum : — “ MR . MATHEW ...
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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
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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.