The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon |
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... fair retreat : for if a man engage himself by a manifest declaration , he must go through , or take a fall . The third is , the better to discover the mind of another for to him that opens himself , men will hardly show themselves ...
... fair retreat : for if a man engage himself by a manifest declaration , he must go through , or take a fall . The third is , the better to discover the mind of another for to him that opens himself , men will hardly show themselves ...
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... fair timber - tree sound and perfect ; how much more to behold an ancient noble family , which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time . For new Nobility is but the act of power ; but ancient Nobility is the act of time ...
... fair timber - tree sound and perfect ; how much more to behold an ancient noble family , which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time . For new Nobility is but the act of power ; but ancient Nobility is the act of time ...
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... fair weather . But let us pass from this part of predictions , ( concerning which , nevertheless , more light may be taken from that which followeth ) and let us speak first of the materials of Seditions ; then of the motives of them ...
... fair weather . But let us pass from this part of predictions , ( concerning which , nevertheless , more light may be taken from that which followeth ) and let us speak first of the materials of Seditions ; then of the motives of them ...
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... fair room . Therefore you shall see them find out pretty looses in the conclu- sion , but are no ways able to examine or debate matters : and yet commonly they take advantage of their inability , and would be thought wits of direc- tion ...
... fair room . Therefore you shall see them find out pretty looses in the conclu- sion , but are no ways able to examine or debate matters : and yet commonly they take advantage of their inability , and would be thought wits of direc- tion ...
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... dulleth any violent impression ; and even so it is of minds . The second fruit of Friendship is healthful and sovereign for the understanding , as the first is for the affections : for Friendship maketh indeed a fair day OF FRIENDSHIP .
... dulleth any violent impression ; and even so it is of minds . The second fruit of Friendship is healthful and sovereign for the understanding , as the first is for the affections : for Friendship maketh indeed a fair day OF FRIENDSHIP .
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
actions Æsop affections amongst ancient arms arts Atheism Augustus Cæsar better beware body Boldness Cæsar cause Certainly Cicero cometh command commonly corrupt coun counsel Counsellors cunning custom danger Death Discontentments discourse Dispatch doth Envy Epicurus Epimetheus Evil fame favour fear fore fortune fruit of Friendship Galba Garden give giveth goeth greater greatest hand hath heart Henry VII honour hurt Judge judgment Julius Cæsar keep keeper of promise kind king lastly less likewise Love maketh man's matter means men's mind motion nature never nizaries Nobility noble opinion persons Plutarch Pompey princes religion remedy rest Riches Romans saith secret Seditions seemeth Septimius Severus servants side soldiers sometimes sort speak speech Superstition sure Tacitus teth things thou thought Tiberius tion true unto Usury Vespasian virtue whereas whereby wherein whereof wise
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Seite 3 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Seite 191 - 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 1 - WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness', and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting.
Seite 64 - 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 4 - MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Seite 174 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Seite 163 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Seite 5 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates ' and masters the fear of death; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; Love slights it; Honour aspireth to it; Grief flieth to it; Fear pre-occupateth it...
Seite 38 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Seite 93 - It is good also not to try experiments in States, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation...