The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1F. C. and J. Rivington, J. Cuthell, 1819 |
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... Man's three prin cipal Faculties , into , I. HISTORY , which relates to Memory . II . POESY , which flows from the Imagination . III . PHILOSOPHY , which is the Produce of Reasoning , HISTORY divided into , 1. Natural . 2. Civil . ibid ...
... Man's three prin cipal Faculties , into , I. HISTORY , which relates to Memory . II . POESY , which flows from the Imagination . III . PHILOSOPHY , which is the Produce of Reasoning , HISTORY divided into , 1. Natural . 2. Civil . ibid ...
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... man's flesh , Of turning air into water , Of helping or altering the shape of the body , 256 Of condensing of air , to yield weight or nourish- ment , Of flame and air commixed , Of the secret nature of flame , 257 258 259 Of flame , in ...
... man's flesh , Of turning air into water , Of helping or altering the shape of the body , 256 Of condensing of air , to yield weight or nourish- ment , Of flame and air commixed , Of the secret nature of flame , 257 258 259 Of flame , in ...
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... man of mere speculation ; as one wholly given up to philosophical inquiries , new indeed and amusing , but ... man's cousin - german ; his father and the lord Burleigh having married two sisters : but ambi- tion knows neither ...
... man of mere speculation ; as one wholly given up to philosophical inquiries , new indeed and amusing , but ... man's cousin - german ; his father and the lord Burleigh having married two sisters : but ambi- tion knows neither ...
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... man of dexterity , craft , and intrigue , rather than a great man . The office that Bacon now entered upon was of exorbitant profit for that age . He owns , in one of his letters to the king , that it was worth to him 60001. a year ...
... man of dexterity , craft , and intrigue , rather than a great man . The office that Bacon now entered upon was of exorbitant profit for that age . He owns , in one of his letters to the king , that it was worth to him 60001. a year ...
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... man would have timely foreseen , and a better man have wholly prevented . But as his genius was unsociable and solitary , the darkness in his temper passed on mankind for depth and sagacity in his understanding . His avarice too , was ...
... man would have timely foreseen , and a better man have wholly prevented . But as his genius was unsociable and solitary , the darkness in his temper passed on mankind for depth and sagacity in his understanding . His avarice too , was ...
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Page 39 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace 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 and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 28 - It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity:* for words are but the images of matter; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.
Page 142 - 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.
Page 39 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace 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...
Page 27 - Execrabilis ista turba, quae non novit legem^] for the winning and persuading of them, there grew of necessity in chief price and request eloquence and variety of discourse, as the fittest and forciblest access into the capacity of the vulgar sort.
Page 61 - Neither can any man marvel at the play of puppets, that goeth behind the curtain, and adviseth well of the motion. And for magnitude, as Alexander the Great, after that he was used to great armies, and the great conquests of the spacious provinces in Asia, when he received letters out of Greece, of some fights and services there, which were commonly for a passage or a fort or some walled town at the most, he said, " It seemed to him, that he was advertised of the battle of the frogs and the mice,...
Page 27 - Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator and Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of periods and imitation and the like. Then did Car of Cambridge, and Ascham, with their lectures and writings, almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes, and allure all young men that were studious unto that delicate and polished kind of learning.
Page 9 - ... if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light whereby he may reveal unto himself the nature or will of God, then indeed is he spoiled by vain philosophy...
Page 35 - Antiquity deserveth that reverence, that men should make a stand thereupon and discover what is the best way; but when the discovery is well taken, then to make progression. And to speak truly, "Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrograde, by a computation backward from ourselves.
Page 69 - The works touching books are two : first, libraries which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed...