The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Ed.; with a Life of the Author, by Basil Montagu...

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Page 412 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath...
Page 402 - ... no sooner ceased, or was drowned by some louder noise, but every beast returned to his own nature : wherein is aptly described the nature and condition of men ; who are full of savage and unreclaimed desires, of profit, of lust, of revenge, which as long as they give ear to precepts, to laws, to religion, sweetly touched with eloquence and persuasion of books, of sermons, of harangues, so long is society and peace maintained ; but if these instruments be silent, or that sedition and tumult make...
Page 394 - But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion. For in the entrance of philosophy...
Page 405 - Remember, O Lord, how thy servant hath walked before thee : remember what I have first sought, and what hath been principal in my intentions. 1 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 to the seas and to the floods.
Page 407 - Wherefore, if we labour in Thy works with the sweat of our brows, Thou wilt make us partakers of Thy vision and Thy Sabbath.
Page 394 - Providence, then, according to the allegory of the poets, he will easily believe that the highest link of nature's chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair.
Page 436 - As for my Essays, and some other particulars of that nature, I count them hut as the recreations of my other studies, and in that sort purpose to continue them : though I am not ignorant that those kind of writings would, with less pains and embracement, perhaps, yield more lustre and reputation to my name than those other which I have in hand.
Page 126 - ... we have set it down as a law to ourselves, to examine things to the bottom ; and not to receive upon credit, or reject upon improbabilities, until there hath passed a due examination.
Page 109 - IT is certain, that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception : for when one body is applied to another, there is a kind of election to embrace that which is agreeable, and to exclude or expel that which is ingrate...
Page 341 - I was but once with the queen, at what time, though I durst not deal directly for my lord as things then stood, yet generally I did both commend her majesty's mercy, terming it to her as an excellent balm that did continually distil from her sovereign hands, and made an excellent odour in the senses of her people...

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