'Thoughts that Breathe and Words that Burn,' from the Writings of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of EnglandE. Stock, 1893 - 206 páginas |
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... the fuppofition ; it doth not reprehend the fallax , whereof the reprehenfion is . Allow that virtue ( fuch as is joined with labour and conflict ) had given many warnings , but could get nobody to and Words that Burn . ' 25.
... the fuppofition ; it doth not reprehend the fallax , whereof the reprehenfion is . Allow that virtue ( fuch as is joined with labour and conflict ) had given many warnings , but could get nobody to and Words that Burn . ' 25.
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... whereof was like the travail of an elephant , the provisions were infinite , the setting forth whereof was the terror and wonder of Europe ; it was not seen that her cheer , her fashion , her ordinary manner was anything altered - not a ...
... whereof was like the travail of an elephant , the provisions were infinite , the setting forth whereof was the terror and wonder of Europe ; it was not seen that her cheer , her fashion , her ordinary manner was anything altered - not a ...
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... whereof some kept their standing , and others fell . He created heaven and earth , and all their armies and generations , and gave unto them conftant and everlasting laws , which we call Nature ; which is nothing but the laws of the ...
... whereof some kept their standing , and others fell . He created heaven and earth , and all their armies and generations , and gave unto them conftant and everlasting laws , which we call Nature ; which is nothing but the laws of the ...
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... whereof is not yet revealed . as the laws of Nature , which now remain and govern inviolably till the end of the world , began to be in force when God first refted from His works and ceafed to create ; but received a revocation in part ...
... whereof is not yet revealed . as the laws of Nature , which now remain and govern inviolably till the end of the world , began to be in force when God first refted from His works and ceafed to create ; but received a revocation in part ...
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... ( whereof that is the second ) exceed all natural unities that is to say , the unity of the three perfons in Godhead , the unity of God and man in Chrift , and the unity of Chrift and the Church : the Holy Ghost being the worker of both ...
... ( whereof that is the second ) exceed all natural unities that is to say , the unity of the three perfons in Godhead , the unity of God and man in Chrift , and the unity of Chrift and the Church : the Holy Ghost being the worker of both ...
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affurance againſt alfo alſo ancient anſwer Antoninus Pius Apophthegms atheiſm Bacon becauſe beft beſt bleffed Callifthenes cauſe Chrift Church confummation counſel creatures crown death defire diſcovery diſtance divifions doth Efays enterpriſe Eſſays eternal faid faith faithful militant fame fecret federacy felves ferve fhall fince firft firſt flain fleſh fome fortune fpeech fpirits ftate ftill fubject fuch glory Guife hath Henry VII Hiftory himſelf Holy Ghoft honour houſe Ibid increaſe itſelf Jefus King Henry King Henry VII kingdom Kingdom of England laft laftly laſt lefs likewife Lord man's mind moft moſt myſelf nature nevertheleſs notwithſtanding obferve pafs paſs perfons pleaſure praiſe prefent princes profanum promiſe Queen Elizabeth reaſon reft reign religion reſpect ſaid ſay ſciences ſeem Septimius Severus ſerve ſhall ſhe ſhould ſhowed ſmall ſome ſpeak themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe tion treaſure underſtanding univerfal unto uſe virtue Weft whereof
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Página 126 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Página 140 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter, or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen.
Página 126 - 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 140 - 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 10 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Página 140 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below": so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Página 139 - ... 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 117 - Remember, O Lord ! how Thy servant hath walked before Thee ; remember what I have first sought, and what hath been principal in my intentions. I have loved Thy assemblies, I have mourned for the divisions of Thy Church, I have delighted in the brightness of Thy sanctuary.
Página 117 - This vine, which thy right hand hath planted in this nation, I have ever prayed unto thee, that it might have the first and the latter rain, and that it might stretch her branches to the seas and to the floods.
Página 61 - Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions, to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report; when perhaps they find the contrary within. For they are the first that find their own griefs, though they be the last that find their own faults.