Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... better ex- ample than his own writings . In their entire form they fill many volumes ; they have been collected in three or four large folios , in five quartos , in a dozen or more octavos . Let the student of literature or philosophy ...
... better ex- ample than his own writings . In their entire form they fill many volumes ; they have been collected in three or four large folios , in five quartos , in a dozen or more octavos . Let the student of literature or philosophy ...
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... better than me ? And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature , why , yet it is but like the thorn or briar , which prick and scratch because they can do no other . And here are the commencement and conclusion of * There may ...
... better than me ? And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature , why , yet it is but like the thorn or briar , which prick and scratch because they can do no other . And here are the commencement and conclusion of * There may ...
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... better in poesy , where transcendencies are more allowed . And the poets indeed have been busy with it ; for it is in effect the thing which is figured in that strange fiction of the ancient poets , which seemeth not to be without ...
... better in poesy , where transcendencies are more allowed . And the poets indeed have been busy with it ; for it is in effect the thing which is figured in that strange fiction of the ancient poets , which seemeth not to be without ...
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... better and some to the worse : ' Omnium consensu , capax imperii , nisi imperasset , ' * saith Tacitus of Galba ; but of Vespasian he saith , Solus imperantium Vespa- sianus mutatus in melius : ' t though the one was meant of ...
... better and some to the worse : ' Omnium consensu , capax imperii , nisi imperasset , ' * saith Tacitus of Galba ; but of Vespasian he saith , Solus imperantium Vespa- sianus mutatus in melius : ' t though the one was meant of ...
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... better than a kind of vermin . Goodness answers to the theological virtue , charity , and admits no excess , but error . The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall , the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall ...
... better than a kind of vermin . Goodness answers to the theological virtue , charity , and admits no excess , but error . The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall , the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall ...
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Page 41 - 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 85 - 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 — that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 54 - 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 85 - 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 need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 43 - 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 57 - Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing. It is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall. It is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him. It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. But that which is specially to be noted is, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are sui amantes sine rivali, are many times unfortunate.
Page 53 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Page 32 - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it being foretold, that, when 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find faith upon the earth.
Page 53 - 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 79 - 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...