The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1F. C. and J. Rivington, J. Cuthell, 1819 |
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... received so much satisfaction from the good sense and manliness of his answers , that she was wont to call him , in mirth , her young lord keeper . One saying of his deserves to be remembered . The queen having asked him his age , while ...
... received so much satisfaction from the good sense and manliness of his answers , that she was wont to call him , in mirth , her young lord keeper . One saying of his deserves to be remembered . The queen having asked him his age , while ...
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... received much , though severe , improvement from the dangers she was exposed to in the first part of her life . She grew up in a strict attention over her own actions , even over her looks and . words , from the rigour of her father's ...
... received much , though severe , improvement from the dangers she was exposed to in the first part of her life . She grew up in a strict attention over her own actions , even over her looks and . words , from the rigour of her father's ...
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... received itself from any : an undoubted proof of its firmness and active vigour . When she came to the crown , she found the nation four millions in debt : a sum then almost incredible ! and yet her œconomy alone enabled her to ...
... received itself from any : an undoubted proof of its firmness and active vigour . When she came to the crown , she found the nation four millions in debt : a sum then almost incredible ! and yet her œconomy alone enabled her to ...
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... received the admonitions , the remonstrances of his friends with all gentleness ; and was ever most patient of the truth . But then he wanted those arts which are most necessary in a courtier ; and are indeed the only qualities which ...
... received the admonitions , the remonstrances of his friends with all gentleness ; and was ever most patient of the truth . But then he wanted those arts which are most necessary in a courtier ; and are indeed the only qualities which ...
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... received him without any emotion either of anger or affec- tion , and , having confined him to his own house , ordered his conduct to be examined in the Star- Chamber . At this usage of him , however gracious and moderate , the people ...
... received him without any emotion either of anger or affec- tion , and , having confined him to his own house , ordered his conduct to be examined in the Star- Chamber . At this usage of him , however gracious and moderate , the people ...
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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...