Advancement of LearningClarendon Press, 1869 - 379 pages |
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Page xiii
... duty , and duty alone . I am not so simple but I know the common beaten way to please . And whereas popul- arity hath been objected , I muse what care I should take to please many , that taketh a course of life to deal with few . ' At ...
... duty , and duty alone . I am not so simple but I know the common beaten way to please . And whereas popul- arity hath been objected , I muse what care I should take to please many , that taketh a course of life to deal with few . ' At ...
Page xv
... duties of citizenship and friend- ship , and how fixed a principle it was with him that , like Pericles , he could only ... duty would have to give way before the higher . How strongly he felt this is shown by the closing sentence of a ...
... duties of citizenship and friend- ship , and how fixed a principle it was with him that , like Pericles , he could only ... duty would have to give way before the higher . How strongly he felt this is shown by the closing sentence of a ...
Page xxii
... duty . I have been much bound to him . And on the other side , I have spent more time and more thoughts about his well- doing than ever I did about mine own . ' Still he had no suspicion of the dangerous secrets of which Essex was con ...
... duty . I have been much bound to him . And on the other side , I have spent more time and more thoughts about his well- doing than ever I did about mine own . ' Still he had no suspicion of the dangerous secrets of which Essex was con ...
Page xxv
... duty was to his country , he could haye acted otherwise . His contemporaries passed no censure upon him . Essex , who laid the blame of his own treason upon his personal enemies , did not reckon Bacon among them . And these things being ...
... duty was to his country , he could haye acted otherwise . His contemporaries passed no censure upon him . Essex , who laid the blame of his own treason upon his personal enemies , did not reckon Bacon among them . And these things being ...
Page xxxii
... duties were not neglected . Salisbury's death in 1612 left an opening for the appointment of a Secretary of State , and Bacon offered his services to the King . The office was not filled up immediately , and soon after the Mastership of ...
... duties were not neglected . Salisbury's death in 1612 left an opening for the appointment of a Secretary of State , and Bacon offered his services to the King . The office was not filled up immediately , and soon after the Mastership of ...
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Page 41 - ... if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Page 32 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Page 311 - Have gloz^d, but superficially ; not much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy. The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of...
Page 102 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 101 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Page 305 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 42 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Page 357 - Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her. Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks, Turn all her mother's pains and benefits To laughter and contempt, that she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!
Page 17 - ... to affirm, that a blind man may tread surer by a guide, than a seeing man can by a light. And it is without all controversy, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous...
Page 101 - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence.