Bacon: His Writings and His PhilosophyC. Knight, 1846 |
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... actions if they be not altogether open . As for talkers and futile persons , they are commonly vain and credulous withal ; for he that talketh what he knoweth will also talk what he knoweth not . Therefore set it down , that a habit of ...
... actions if they be not altogether open . As for talkers and futile persons , they are commonly vain and credulous withal ; for he that talketh what he knoweth will also talk what he knoweth not . Therefore set it down , that a habit of ...
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... action , which is trust and belief . The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion , secrecy in habit , dissimulation in seasonable use , and a power to feign if there be no remedy . Of the Seventh Essay ...
... action , which is trust and belief . The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion , secrecy in habit , dissimulation in seasonable use , and a power to feign if there be no remedy . Of the Seventh Essay ...
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... actions , nor in their times . It is a strange desire , to seek power and to lose liberty , or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self . The rising unto place is laborious , and by pains men come to greater pains ...
... actions , nor in their times . It is a strange desire , to seek power and to lose liberty , or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self . The rising unto place is laborious , and by pains men come to greater pains ...
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... Action . ' ' What next ? ' ' Action . ' ' What next again ? ' Action . ' He said it that knew it best , and had by nature himself no advantage in that he commended . A strange thing , that that part of an orator which is but superficial ...
... Action . ' ' What next ? ' ' Action . ' ' What next again ? ' Action . ' He said it that knew it best , and had by nature himself no advantage in that he commended . A strange thing , that that part of an orator which is but superficial ...
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... action than soon after , for bold- ness is an ill keeper of promise . Surely as there are mounte- banks for the natural body , so are there mountebanks for the politic body men that undertake great cures , and perhaps have been lucky in ...
... action than soon after , for bold- ness is an ill keeper of promise . Surely as there are mounte- banks for the natural body , so are there mountebanks for the politic body men that undertake great cures , and perhaps have been lucky in ...
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Page 36 - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Page 27 - ... (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.
Page 16 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of the own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 49 - 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:
Page 74 - 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.
Page 80 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 75 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 48 - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Page 38 - THE joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter ; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.
Page 41 - Men in great place are thrice servants ; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.