The Essays of Francis BaconHoughton, Mifflin, 1908 - 227 páginas |
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Página ix
... less violent measures against the Puritans . The trea- tise is remarkable for shrewdness , wit , and tact . abeth " Two years later , in 1586 , came the trial and conviction of Mary , Queen of Scots . In the Parliament of that year ...
... less violent measures against the Puritans . The trea- tise is remarkable for shrewdness , wit , and tact . abeth " Two years later , in 1586 , came the trial and conviction of Mary , Queen of Scots . In the Parliament of that year ...
Página xii
... less Bacon had a poverty of moral feeling ; certainly he nowhere records any pain at having to help prosecute his friend . But two things must be borne in mind : first , Bacon had himself rendered valuable services to Essex and was ...
... less Bacon had a poverty of moral feeling ; certainly he nowhere records any pain at having to help prosecute his friend . But two things must be borne in mind : first , Bacon had himself rendered valuable services to Essex and was ...
Página xv
... less a patriot . 66 Bacon's po- sition in the struggle between the King and the Com- And England needed the loyal services of her sons . The struggle was beginning between King and Commons . " The great and pressing subject of the time ...
... less a patriot . 66 Bacon's po- sition in the struggle between the King and the Com- And England needed the loyal services of her sons . The struggle was beginning between King and Commons . " The great and pressing subject of the time ...
Página xviii
... less for his achievement than for his inspiration . He himself said , in- deed , " I only sound the clarion ; but I enter not the battle . " count St. Alban , 1621 Notwithstanding his flippant reception of the Novum Organum , the King ...
... less for his achievement than for his inspiration . He himself said , in- deed , " I only sound the clarion ; but I enter not the battle . " count St. Alban , 1621 Notwithstanding his flippant reception of the Novum Organum , the King ...
Página xxvi
... less freely . Of religion he says very little formally ; Es- say iii is concerned mainly with religious politics , or church unity and harmony . A devout Christian , Bacon was yet very much of a man of the world , and had no disposition ...
... less freely . Of religion he says very little formally ; Es- say iii is concerned mainly with religious politics , or church unity and harmony . A devout Christian , Bacon was yet very much of a man of the world , and had no disposition ...
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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.