Bacon, His Writings and His PhilosophyGriffin Bohn, 1862 - 715 pages |
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... honour , " it is added , " which until that time had never been conferred upon any member of the pro- fession . " Rawley calls it " a grace ( if I err not ) scarce known before . " * 66 It appears to have been from about this date that ...
... honour , " it is added , " which until that time had never been conferred upon any member of the pro- fession . " Rawley calls it " a grace ( if I err not ) scarce known before . " * 66 It appears to have been from about this date that ...
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... Honour and Reputation , ' being omitted ) , and 29 new ones . Of the nine that are reprinted , also , several are considerably en- larged . The Table of Contents enumerates 40 Essays ; but the two last , entitled ' Of the Public , ' and ...
... Honour and Reputation , ' being omitted ) , and 29 new ones . Of the nine that are reprinted , also , several are considerably en- larged . The Table of Contents enumerates 40 Essays ; but the two last , entitled ' Of the Public , ' and ...
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... honour of man's nature , and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver , which may make the metal work the better , but it embaseth it . For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ...
... honour of man's nature , and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver , which may make the metal work the better , but it embaseth it . For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ...
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... honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear pre - occupateth it ; Nay we read , after Otho the Emperor had slain himself , pity ( which is the tenderest of affections ) provoked many to die , out of mere com- passion to their ...
... honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear pre - occupateth it ; Nay we read , after Otho the Emperor had slain himself , pity ( which is the tenderest of affections ) provoked many to die , out of mere com- passion to their ...
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... honour , or the like . Therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself 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 ...
... honour , or the like . Therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself 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 ...
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Page 36 - 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 16 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Page 6 - 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 74 - GOD 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 handiworks.
Page 26 - TRUTH WHAT is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay .for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting.
Page 27 - Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 49 - 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 75 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music,) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 80 - 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 38 - 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.