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... regard with excessive admiration writers of a completely opposite character ; those of a mystical , dim , half in- telligible kind of affected grandeur . It is well known what a reproach to our climate is the prevalence of fogs , and ...
... regard with excessive admiration writers of a completely opposite character ; those of a mystical , dim , half in- telligible kind of affected grandeur . It is well known what a reproach to our climate is the prevalence of fogs , and ...
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... regard with some favour a style of dim and mystical sublimity , remarks , that ' a strange notion , which many have adopted of late years , is that a poem cannot be profound unless it is , in whole or in part , obscure ; the people like ...
... regard with some favour a style of dim and mystical sublimity , remarks , that ' a strange notion , which many have adopted of late years , is that a poem cannot be profound unless it is , in whole or in part , obscure ; the people like ...
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... regard it as a duty to suppress all exercise of the intellectual powers , in every case where the feelings are at variance with the conclusions of reason . They deem it right to consult the heart more than the head ; that is , to ...
... regard it as a duty to suppress all exercise of the intellectual powers , in every case where the feelings are at variance with the conclusions of reason . They deem it right to consult the heart more than the head ; that is , to ...
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... regard to seeming expediency . The greatest of all these obstacles to the habit of following truth is the last mentioned - the tendency to look , in the first instance , to the expedient . It is this principle that influences men to the ...
... regard to seeming expediency . The greatest of all these obstacles to the habit of following truth is the last mentioned - the tendency to look , in the first instance , to the expedient . It is this principle that influences men to the ...
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... regard as establishing their own character for eminent generosity . Nor are they usually mistaken in their calculation ; for if not absolutely commended for their magnanimous moderation , they usually escape , at least , the well ...
... regard as establishing their own character for eminent generosity . Nor are they usually mistaken in their calculation ; for if not absolutely commended for their magnanimous moderation , they usually escape , at least , the well ...
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Bacon's Essays, with Annotations by R. Whately Richard Whately (abp of Dublin) Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2020 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 248 - 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.
Seite 148 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Seite 377 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed : Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Seite 135 - 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.
Seite 507 - And they shall be mine, Saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels : And I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, And discern between the righteous and the wicked, Between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Seite 47 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Seite 84 - 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.
Seite 217 - All this is true, if time stood still; which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Seite 431 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores...
Seite 393 - There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.