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... facts , or think that they see the means of acquir ing reputation , or of promoting their interests , or of gratifying their political or their private resentments , by attacking the altered policy . All popular errors are plausible ...
... facts , or think that they see the means of acquir ing reputation , or of promoting their interests , or of gratifying their political or their private resentments , by attacking the altered policy . All popular errors are plausible ...
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... facts . And the maxims which he laid down and enforced for the conduct of philosophical inquiry , are universally admitted to have at least greatly contributed to the vast progress which physical science has been making since his time ...
... facts . And the maxims which he laid down and enforced for the conduct of philosophical inquiry , are universally admitted to have at least greatly contributed to the vast progress which physical science has been making since his time ...
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... facts , to that of trusting to a mere accumulation of ill - arranged knowledge . It is as if men had formerly spent vain labour in thrashing over and over again the same straw , and winnowing the same chaff , and then their successors ...
... facts , to that of trusting to a mere accumulation of ill - arranged knowledge . It is as if men had formerly spent vain labour in thrashing over and over again the same straw , and winnowing the same chaff , and then their successors ...
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... fact alluded to in a Latin proverb applicable to those who create future dangers for themselves ; for , the ancient Romans prepared birdlime for catching birds from the misselto thus propagated . Now this account of the plant , which ...
... fact alluded to in a Latin proverb applicable to those who create future dangers for themselves ; for , the ancient Romans prepared birdlime for catching birds from the misselto thus propagated . Now this account of the plant , which ...
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... fact that the Essay " Of Seditions and Troubles , " which then existed only in MS . , was included in the volume , and that a portion of the dedicatory letter to Prince Henry was incorporated in Matthew's preface . The passage " To ...
... fact that the Essay " Of Seditions and Troubles , " which then existed only in MS . , was included in the volume , and that a portion of the dedicatory letter to Prince Henry was incorporated in Matthew's preface . The passage " To ...
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Página 428 - 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 131 - 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 400 - God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Página 545 - Farewell, Monsieur Traveller : look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country, be out of love with your nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are ; or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.
Página 79 - There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable; as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Página 80 - Men in great place are thrice servants ; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.
Página 16 - For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
Página 256 - A man hath a body, and that body is confined to a place; but where friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise them by his friend.
Página 253 - The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true : Cor ne edito, "Eat not the heart." Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Página 64 - ... to marry when he will : but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry. " A " young man not yet, an elder man not at all.