Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological worksF. C. and J. Rivington, 1819 |
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... pass over a cloud , sheweth winds : but kites flying aloft shew fair and dry weather . The cause may be , for that they both mount most into the air of that temper wherein they delight : and the heron being a water - fowl , taketh ...
... pass over a cloud , sheweth winds : but kites flying aloft shew fair and dry weather . The cause may be , for that they both mount most into the air of that temper wherein they delight : and the heron being a water - fowl , taketh ...
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... , the beams of light pass not straight , and therefore must be darkened ; whereas , when it resteth , the beams 5 32 [ Cent . IX . Natural History . Of the eyes and sight, ibid Of the colour of the sea, or other water,
... , the beams of light pass not straight , and therefore must be darkened ; whereas , when it resteth , the beams 5 32 [ Cent . IX . Natural History . Of the eyes and sight, ibid Of the colour of the sea, or other water,
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Francis Bacon. darkened ; whereas , when it resteth , the beams do pass straight . Besides , splendour hath a degree of whiteness ; especially if there be a little repercussion : for a looking - glass with the steel behind , looketh ...
Francis Bacon. darkened ; whereas , when it resteth , the beams do pass straight . Besides , splendour hath a degree of whiteness ; especially if there be a little repercussion : for a looking - glass with the steel behind , looketh ...
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... consent of the universe , as part of the diurnal motion . These immateriate virtues have this property differing from others ; that the diversity of the medium hindereth them not ; but they pass through Cent . X. ] 47 Natural History .
... consent of the universe , as part of the diurnal motion . These immateriate virtues have this property differing from others ; that the diversity of the medium hindereth them not ; but they pass through Cent . X. ] 47 Natural History .
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Francis Bacon. the medium hindereth them not ; but they pass through all mediums , yet at determinate distances . And of these we shall speak , as they are incident to several titles . 908. THE fifth is the emissions of spirits ; and ...
Francis Bacon. the medium hindereth them not ; but they pass through all mediums , yet at determinate distances . And of these we shall speak , as they are incident to several titles . 908. THE fifth is the emissions of spirits ; and ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Æsop amongst ancient answered Aristippus asked atheism Augustus Cæsar better bishop body Cæsar cause Church Cicero colour cometh command commonly counsel counsellors creatures danger death divers divine doth drams earth effect envy evil Experiment solitary touching factions father favour fortune fruit Galba give goeth gold grains hath heat holy honour imagination judgment Julius Cæsar kind king knowledge labour less light likewise lord Lucullus Macedon maketh man's matter means ment metals mind motion nature never observed opinion ounce persons Pompey princes putrefaction queen quicksilver religion rest riches saith seemeth servants shew side silver Sir Nicholas Bacon smell sort speak speech spirits stone Tacitus Themistocles things thou thought tion true ture unto usury Vespasian virtue vitrification whereas whereby wherein whereof wine wise words
Passagens conhecidas
Página 250 - ... 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 368 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Página 368 - 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 252 - 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 306 - All this is true, if time stood still; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself; which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived.
Página 107 - 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 309 - ... 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 263 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Página 309 - Roman name attaineth the true use and cause thereof, naming them " participes curarum;" for it is that which tieth the knot: and we see plainly that this hath been done, not by weak and passionate princes only, but by the wisest and most politic that ever reigned, who have oftentimes joined to themselves some of their servants, whom both themselves have called friends, and allowed others likewise to call them in the same manner, using the word which is received between private men.
Página 312 - 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.