The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the AncientsLittle, Brown, 1856 - 360 Seiten |
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... never hurt or weary the eyes . " ― Philadelphia Bulletin . " As models of English prose they stand unrivalled , and deserve a place in every library , public or private , but especially in every school and town library in the country ...
... never hurt or weary the eyes . " ― Philadelphia Bulletin . " As models of English prose they stand unrivalled , and deserve a place in every library , public or private , but especially in every school and town library in the country ...
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... never to be forgiven , and he engaged in a conspiracy to seize on the Queen , and to settle a new plan of govern- ment . On the failure of this attempt , he was ar- rested , committed to the Tower , and brought to trial for high treason ...
... never to be forgiven , and he engaged in a conspiracy to seize on the Queen , and to settle a new plan of govern- ment . On the failure of this attempt , he was ar- rested , committed to the Tower , and brought to trial for high treason ...
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... never to rise till he was forgiven ! It must after this have been difficult indeed for him to rise again in the world's esteem or his own . cree . Bacon was made to purchase at a dear price his reinstatement in the good graces of ...
... never to rise till he was forgiven ! It must after this have been difficult indeed for him to rise again in the world's esteem or his own . cree . Bacon was made to purchase at a dear price his reinstatement in the good graces of ...
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... never had , " said Bacon in his defence , " bribe or reward in my eye or thought when I pronounced sentence or or- der . " This is an acknowledgment of the fact , and perhaps an aggravation of the offence . He then addressed " an humble ...
... never had , " said Bacon in his defence , " bribe or reward in my eye or thought when I pronounced sentence or or- der . " This is an acknowledgment of the fact , and perhaps an aggravation of the offence . He then addressed " an humble ...
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... never sets , is studied and admired throughout the old world and the new , and it will be so by generations still unborn ; it will descend to posterity in company with his contemporary , Shakspeare , ( whose name he never mentions ...
... never sets , is studied and admired throughout the old world and the new , and it will be so by generations still unborn ; it will descend to posterity in company with his contemporary , Shakspeare , ( whose name he never mentions ...
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Seite 23 - 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.
Seite 227 - 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.
Seite 205 - That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express; * no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Seite 31 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things ' ; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Seite 55 - It is as natural to die as to be born, and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Seite 228 - 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.
Seite 66 - 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.
Seite 50 - One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum, 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.
Seite 52 - 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.
Seite 138 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end...