Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... 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 . ....... The Sixth Essay , ' Of Simulation and Dissimulation , ' was ...
... 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 . ....... The Sixth Essay , ' Of Simulation and Dissimulation , ' was ...
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... virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men , which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public . Yet it were great reason ...
... virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men , which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public . Yet it were great reason ...
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... virtue ; and as in nature things move violently to their place , and calmly in their place , so virtue in ambition is violent , in authority settled and calm . All rising to great place is by a winding stair ; and if there be factions ...
... virtue ; and as in nature things move violently to their place , and calmly in their place , so virtue in ambition is violent , in authority settled and calm . All rising to great place is by a winding stair ; and if there be factions ...
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... virtues and dignities of the mind is the greatest , being the character of the Deity ; and without it man is a busy , mischievous , wretched thing , no better than a kind of vermin . Goodness answers to the theological virtue , charity ...
... virtues and dignities of the mind is the greatest , being the character of the Deity ; and without it man is a busy , mischievous , wretched thing , no better than a kind of vermin . Goodness answers to the theological virtue , charity ...
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... virtues remain to their posterity , and their faults die with themselves . The Fifteenth Essay , ' Of Seditions and Troubles , ' was first published in 1625 , and is of considerable length ; but the following are perhaps the portions of ...
... virtues remain to their posterity , and their faults die with themselves . The Fifteenth Essay , ' Of Seditions and Troubles , ' was first published in 1625 , and is of considerable length ; but the following are perhaps the portions of ...
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