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Página 64
... riches and wisdom . This passion hath its floods in the very times of weakness , which are , great prosperity and great adversity ; though this latter hath been less observed ; both which times kindle love , and make it more fervent ...
... riches and wisdom . This passion hath its floods in the very times of weakness , which are , great prosperity and great adversity ; though this latter hath been less observed ; both which times kindle love , and make it more fervent ...
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... Riches are for spending ; and spending for honour and good actions . Therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion ; for voluntary undoing may be as well for a man's country as for the kingdom of heaven ...
... Riches are for spending ; and spending for honour and good actions . Therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion ; for voluntary undoing may be as well for a man's country as for the kingdom of heaven ...
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... riches to the treasury out of the spoils , and donatives to the army . But that honour , perhaps , were not fit for mon- archies ; except it be in the person of the monarch himself or his sons ; as it came to pass in the times of the ...
... riches to the treasury out of the spoils , and donatives to the army . But that honour , perhaps , were not fit for mon- archies ; except it be in the person of the monarch himself or his sons ; as it came to pass in the times of the ...
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... RICHES . I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better , " impedimenta . " For as the baggage To make their best for to make the best . 2 So as for so that . 3 Marish ( unused ) for marshy ...
... RICHES . I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better , " impedimenta . " For as the baggage To make their best for to make the best . 2 So as for so that . 3 Marish ( unused ) for marshy ...
Página 132
... riches to virtue . It cannot be spared nor left behind , but it hindereth the march ; yea , and the care of it Sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory . Of great riches there is no real use , except it be in the distribution ; the ...
... riches to virtue . It cannot be spared nor left behind , but it hindereth the march ; yea , and the care of it Sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory . Of great riches there is no real use , except it be in the distribution ; the ...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, with notes by A. Spiers Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) Visualização integral - 1851 |
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Página 18 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Página 171 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. 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 108 - 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 65 - 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. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Página 111 - ... whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another; he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words: finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Página 151 - ... them. The errors of young men are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men amount but to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
Página 188 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new ? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Página 20 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Página 184 - Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice, and an over-speaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar, or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short, or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
Página 171 - 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.