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Página xvii
... NEVER LOOK , ' says Montaigne , upon an author , be they such as write of virtue and of actions , but I curiously endeavour to find out what he was himself . " This hint , useful for the students of any book , is especially useful for ...
... NEVER LOOK , ' says Montaigne , upon an author , be they such as write of virtue and of actions , but I curiously endeavour to find out what he was himself . " This hint , useful for the students of any book , is especially useful for ...
Página xxi
... any understanding , my mind hath been in 1 Bacon never uses these words in their full force . He means that he dwells amid alien occupations . effect absent from that I have done . The history What Bacon was himself xxi.
... any understanding , my mind hath been in 1 Bacon never uses these words in their full force . He means that he dwells amid alien occupations . effect absent from that I have done . The history What Bacon was himself xxi.
Página xxvi
... never be , if he meant to be faithful to his own Induction , - ' the hair- less man ' Who lived alone in a great wild on grass , Read but one book , and ever reading grew So grated down and filed away with thought , So lean , his eyes ...
... never be , if he meant to be faithful to his own Induction , - ' the hair- less man ' Who lived alone in a great wild on grass , Read but one book , and ever reading grew So grated down and filed away with thought , So lean , his eyes ...
Página xxxvi
... never believe that Bacon sought power for the sake of Science : naturally , because they care greatly for power and little for Science . Nor will they readily understand the confidence with which Bacon anticipated scientific success ...
... never believe that Bacon sought power for the sake of Science : naturally , because they care greatly for power and little for Science . Nor will they readily understand the confidence with which Bacon anticipated scientific success ...
Página xxxix
... never despairs . A stranger in all other occupations , he is always longing to return to his true home , philosophy , to all knowledge which he has taken as his province . Grant him but life and leisure , and he is certain of success ...
... never despairs . A stranger in all other occupations , he is always longing to return to his true home , philosophy , to all knowledge which he has taken as his province . Grant him but life and leisure , and he is certain of success ...
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ancient Aristotle arts atheism Augmentis Bacon better body boldness Cæsar cause certainly Christian Church common commonly counsel counsellors cunning custom danger death degenerate arts desire Discourses dissimulation divine doth England envy Essays Essex evil faith favour fortune friendship hath heart Henry VII Heraclitus honour hope human nature Induction Instauratio Magna kind King King's kingdom less Lord Chancellor Lord Macaulay Machiavelli maketh man's mankind matters means men's mincepies mind monarchy morality motion nation never nobility noble Novum Organum Parliament persons petty philosophy Plutarch politic ministers politics Pompey prerogative Primum Mobile princes religion remedy Romans Rome royal royal prerogative saith Science scientific Scripture secret seditions seemed seemeth sense servants sometimes speak speech superstition Tacitus things thought tion Toby Matthew true truth Turks unity unto Vespasian virtue whereof wise words writes
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Página 1 - 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 clxv - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty...
Página 89 - 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 clxvi - But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that 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 clxvi - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Página 13 - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Página 54 - They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body, and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
Página 96 - ... for that a friend is far more than himself. Men have their time, and die many times in desire of some things which they principally take to heart: the bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like. If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things will continue after him. So that a man hath as it were two lives in his desires.
Página 1 - ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Página clxvi - 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.