The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the AncientsLittle, Brown, 1856 - 360 Seiten |
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... turn , " spend all his power , might , and amity ? " The Queen's Counsel extraordinary might have offended his sovereign by his importu- nity , and have been forgotten in the impending vacancy of the office of Solicitor - General ...
... turn , " spend all his power , might , and amity ? " The Queen's Counsel extraordinary might have offended his sovereign by his importu- nity , and have been forgotten in the impending vacancy of the office of Solicitor - General ...
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... throne the patron of Bacon , who said of him in his will , " my most gracious sovereign , who ever when he was prince was my patron . " 2 The Seasons . It is gratifying to turn from the melancholy scenes exhibited 22 NOTICE OF.
... throne the patron of Bacon , who said of him in his will , " my most gracious sovereign , who ever when he was prince was my patron . " 2 The Seasons . It is gratifying to turn from the melancholy scenes exhibited 22 NOTICE OF.
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... turn from the melancholy scenes exhibited by the political life of Bacon , to behold him in his study in the deep search of truth ; no contrast is more striking than that between the chancellor and the philosopher , or , as Macaulay has ...
... turn from the melancholy scenes exhibited by the political life of Bacon , to behold him in his study in the deep search of truth ; no contrast is more striking than that between the chancellor and the philosopher , or , as Macaulay has ...
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... turn of thought . Bacon is elaborate , sententious , often witty , often metaphorical ; nothing could be spared ; his ana- logies are generally striking and novel ; his style is clear , precise , forcible ; yet there is some degree of ...
... turn of thought . Bacon is elaborate , sententious , often witty , often metaphorical ; nothing could be spared ; his ana- logies are generally striking and novel ; his style is clear , precise , forcible ; yet there is some degree of ...
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... turn upon the poles of truth . To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknow- ledged , even by those that practise it not , that clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature ...
... turn upon the poles of truth . To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknow- ledged , even by those that practise it not , that clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature ...
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actions admiration affection alludes amongst ancient Aristotle Arthur Gorges arts atheism Augustus Cæsar beautiful better body Cæsar called cause Certainly commonly corruption counsel court custom danger death denotes dissimulation divine doth Duke of Guise earth edition England envy Epicurus Essays evil fable fame father favor fear fortune France Francis Bacon Gray's Inn hand hath Hippomenes honor human Instauratio Magna invented judge judgment Julius Cæsar Jupiter justice justly kind kings Latin likewise Lord Bacon Lord Campbell maketh man's mankind matter means men's ment mind moral nature ness never noble Novum Organum observed opinion persons philosophy pleasure poets princes Queen Queen's Counsel received religion revenge rich saith says secret servants speak speech Tacitus thereof things thou thought tion true truth unto usury virtue whence wisdom wise words writings
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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...