The Essays of Francis BaconHoughton, Mifflin, 1908 - 227 páginas |
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... fear death , as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales , so is the other . Certainly , the contemplation of 2 death , as the wages of sin and passage OF DEATH Of Death.
... fear death , as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales , so is the other . Certainly , the contemplation of 2 death , as the wages of sin and passage OF DEATH Of Death.
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... fear of it , as a tribute due unto nature , is weak . Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of ... fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win ...
... fear of it , as a tribute due unto nature , is weak . Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of ... fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win ...
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... fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes . We see in needle - works and embroideries , 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 ...
... fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes . We see in needle - works and embroideries , 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 ...
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... fears . They cannot utter the one ; nor they will not utter the other . Children sweeten labors ; but they make misfortunes more bitter . They increase the cares of life ; but they mitigate the remembrance of death . The perpetuity by ...
... fears . They cannot utter the one ; nor they will not utter the other . Children sweeten labors ; but they make misfortunes more bitter . They increase the cares of life ; but they mitigate the remembrance of death . The perpetuity by ...
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... turneth them into an ill odor . And therefore there is little won by inter- mingling of plausible 23 actions . For that doth argue but a weakness and fear of envy , which hurteth so much the more , as it is likewise usual in OF ENVY 29.
... turneth them into an ill odor . And therefore there is little won by inter- mingling of plausible 23 actions . For that doth argue but a weakness and fear of envy , which hurteth so much the more , as it is likewise usual in OF ENVY 29.
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¹¹ actions Æsop alleys amongst ancient atheism Augustus Augustus Cæsar Bacon better body bold Cæsar called cause Certainly Cicero command common commonly counsel counsellors court cunning custom danger death Dion Cassius discourse dissimulation doth emperor empire England envy Epicurus Essay Essex evil fame favor fortune France Francis Bacon friendship Galba garden give goeth Greek ground hath Henry honor judge judgment Julius Cæsar kind king less likewise Lives maketh man's matter means men's ment mind Morals motion nature never nobility NOTE Novum Organum persons plantation pleasure Plutarch poets Pompey princes Proverbs Queen religion riches Roman Rome secret Sejanus Septimius Severus servants side soldiers sometimes sort speak speech Suetonius sure Tacitus Themistocles things thou thought Tiberius tion true truth unto usury Vespasian virtue wherein whereof wisdom wise words
Passagens conhecidas
Página 154 - 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 155 - 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 had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 154 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Página 155 - 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 : if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores : if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.
Página 81 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 23 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Página 17 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Página 6 - Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum (devil's-wine), 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 51 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Página 85 - Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. But one thing is most admirable (wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship), which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.