Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience and advancement of learning |
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... princes and the various consti tutions of their governments . In his 19th year he gave the first fruits of his observations to the world , in a work entitled Of the State of Europe , in which he gave the most astonishing proofs of the ...
... princes and the various consti tutions of their governments . In his 19th year he gave the first fruits of his observations to the world , in a work entitled Of the State of Europe , in which he gave the most astonishing proofs of the ...
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... prince of dark- ness : " and what is it better , to make the cause of religion to descend to the cruel and execrable actions of murdering princes , but- chery of people , and subversion of states and governments ? Surely this is to ...
... prince of dark- ness : " and what is it better , to make the cause of religion to descend to the cruel and execrable actions of murdering princes , but- chery of people , and subversion of states and governments ? Surely this is to ...
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... prince's part to par- don and Solomon , I am sure , saith , “ It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence . ” That ... princes . The true theory of persecution is contained in the concluding clause of the essay ; cupidity has ever ...
... prince's part to par- don and Solomon , I am sure , saith , “ It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence . ” That ... princes . The true theory of persecution is contained in the concluding clause of the essay ; cupidity has ever ...
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... princes less ; and more , ever upon the first entrance of bold persons into action than soon after ; for bold- ness is an ill keeper of promise . Surely as there are mountebanks for the natural body , so are there mountebanks for the ...
... princes less ; and more , ever upon the first entrance of bold persons into action than soon after ; for bold- ness is an ill keeper of promise . Surely as there are mountebanks for the natural body , so are there mountebanks for the ...
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... princes , that ought to be common parents , make themselves as a party , and lean to a side ; it is , as a boat that is overthrown by uneven weight on the one side ; as was well seen in 1 Through hatred of the gods , the parent Earth ...
... princes , that ought to be common parents , make themselves as a party , and lean to a side ; it is , as a boat that is overthrown by uneven weight on the one side ; as was well seen in 1 Through hatred of the gods , the parent Earth ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action Æsop affections amongst ancient antiquity Aristotle atheism Augustus Cæsar Bacon better body Cæsar Callisthenes cause cerning Cicero civil cometh command commonly conceit corrupt counsel danger deficient Democritus Demosthenes discourse divers divine doctrine doth earth envy error excellent fable fame fortune friends give glory goeth handled hath heaven honour human humour inquiry invention judge judgment Julius Cæsar kind king knowledge labour learning ledge likewise Lord Bacon maketh man's manner matter means men's Metaphysique mind moral natural philosophy never observation opinion particular perfection persons Plato pleasure Plutarch poets Pompey precept princes quæ reason religion Roman saith sciences Scriptures seemeth side Socrates sometimes sophism sort speak speech spirit Tacitus things thou Tiberius tion touching Trajan true truth unto usury Vespasian virtue whereas wherein whereof wisdom wise words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 72 - 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. 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...
Seite 7 - 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 26 - He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Seite 41 - How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself! A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.
Seite 23 - Democritus and Epicurus. For it is a thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions or seeds unplaced, should have produced this order and beauty without a divine marshal. The scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God...
Seite 73 - Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend ; " Abeunt studia in mores;" i nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies...
Seite 51 - I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is 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 rest is but conceit. So saith Solomon : "Where much is, there are many to consume it, and what hath the owner but the sight of it with...
Seite 10 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Seite 25 - Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing; for as it addeth deformity to an ape to be so like a man, so the similitude of superstition to religion makes it the more deformed. And as wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances. There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received...
Seite 1 - 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.