Character of Lord Bacon: His Life and Work ...Maxwell, 1835 - 367 pages |
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... published in 1629. They are not , I believe , inserted any edition of Bacon's works , nor do in any of his biographers appear to have been aware of their existence . Having unsuccessfully sought for the Florilegium in the Library of the ...
... published in 1629. They are not , I believe , inserted any edition of Bacon's works , nor do in any of his biographers appear to have been aware of their existence . Having unsuccessfully sought for the Florilegium in the Library of the ...
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... published for com- mon use . * Springing from such a stock , and trained up by parents so excellent , it need excite no wonder , that Bacon , in the very spring - time of his life , put forth the buds of promise , and attracted , when a ...
... published for com- mon use . * Springing from such a stock , and trained up by parents so excellent , it need excite no wonder , that Bacon , in the very spring - time of his life , put forth the buds of promise , and attracted , when a ...
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... published in 1630 , with the following title : - The Common Lawes of England , branched into a double tract ; the one containing a collection of some prin- cipall Rules and Maximes of the Common Law , and their it has been thought ...
... published in 1630 , with the following title : - The Common Lawes of England , branched into a double tract ; the one containing a collection of some prin- cipall Rules and Maximes of the Common Law , and their it has been thought ...
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... publish it ? The truth seems to be , that he hesitated to give to the world what he himself considered an un- finished work . In his proposition to king James , for compiling and amending the law , he speaks of a treatise de regulis ...
... publish it ? The truth seems to be , that he hesitated to give to the world what he himself considered an un- finished work . In his proposition to king James , for compiling and amending the law , he speaks of a treatise de regulis ...
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... published in modern times . It is to be regretted , that sir James Mackintosh has not yet met with a suitable biographer . We know that whilst in India he drew up a short memoir of himself : -why is this not published ? + Fuller's Abel ...
... published in modern times . It is to be regretted , that sir James Mackintosh has not yet met with a suitable biographer . We know that whilst in India he drew up a short memoir of himself : -why is this not published ? + Fuller's Abel ...
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Page 198 - I do not know what I may appear to the World ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 115 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Page 116 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a tarrasse for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.
Page 116 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession...
Page 17 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss.
Page 119 - But a just story of learning, containing the antiquities and originals of knowledges and their sects, their inventions, their traditions, their diverse administrations and managings, their flourishings, their oppositions, decays, depressions, oblivions, removes, with the causes and occasions of them, and all other events concerning learning, throughout the ages of the world, I may truly affirm to be wanting.
Page 69 - Remember, 0 Lord ! how thy servant hath walked before thee ; remember what I have first sought, and what hath been principal in my intentions. I have loved thy assemblies, I have mourned for the divisions of thy church, I have delighted in the Brightness of thy sanctuary. This vine, which thy right hand hath planted in this nation, I have ever prayed unto thee, that it might have the first and the latter rain, and that it might stretch her branches tcrthe seas, and to the floods.
Page 340 - ... as now they are ; with other things appertaining to what hath been called the New Philosophy, which from the times of Galileo at Florence, and Sir Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam) in England, hath been much cultivated in Italy, France, Germany, and other parts abroad, as well as with us in England.
Page 112 - And that learning should take up too much time or leisure ; I answer, the most active or busy man that hath been or can be, hath (no question) many vacant times of leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns of business (except he be either tedious and of no dispatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be 10 better done by others...
Page 152 - For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.