Bacon: The Advancement of LearningClarendon Press, 1876 - 376 pages |
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... passages in his writings , and it would argue him a hypocrite of the deepest dye to suppose that he openly practised what he as openly denounced . In his speech in the Common Pleas ( May 3 , 1617 ) to Justice Hutton , he admonishes him ...
... passages in his writings , and it would argue him a hypocrite of the deepest dye to suppose that he openly practised what he as openly denounced . In his speech in the Common Pleas ( May 3 , 1617 ) to Justice Hutton , he admonishes him ...
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... passages of government and policy , which are to seek in little and punctual occasions . I refer them also to that which Plato said of his master Socrates , whom he compared to the gallipots of apothecaries , which on the outside had ...
... passages of government and policy , which are to seek in little and punctual occasions . I refer them also to that which Plato said of his master Socrates , whom he compared to the gallipots of apothecaries , which on the outside had ...
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... passage for a time by the ignorance of the people , the superstitious simplicity of some , and the politic toleration of others , holding them but as divine poesies ; yet after a period of time , when the mist began to clear up , they ...
... passage for a time by the ignorance of the people , the superstitious simplicity of some , and the politic toleration of others , holding them but as divine poesies ; yet after a period of time , when the mist began to clear up , they ...
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... passage rather to that which is popular and superficial , than to that which is substantial and profound ; for the truth is , that time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream , which carrieth down to us that which is light and ...
... passage rather to that which is popular and superficial , than to that which is substantial and profound ; for the truth is , that time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream , which carrieth down to us that which is light and ...
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... passages , and for policing of cities and com- monalties with new ordinances and constitutions , and granting new franchises and incorporations ; so that his whole time was a very restoration of all the lapses and decays of former times ...
... passages , and for policing of cities and com- monalties with new ordinances and constitutions , and granting new franchises and incorporations ; so that his whole time was a very restoration of all the lapses and decays of former times ...
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Page 287 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself.
Page 293 - 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 218 - But men if they be in their own power and do bear and sustain themselves, and be not carried away with a whirlwind or tempest of ambition, ought in the pursuit of their own fortune to set before their eyes not only that general map of the world, that all things are vanity and vexation of spirit...
Page 302 - Then gin I thinke on that which Nature sayd, Of that same time when no more Change shall be, But stedfast rest of all things, firmely stayd Upon the pillours of Eternity, That is contrayr to Mutabilitie ; For all that moveth doth in Change delight : But thence-forth all shall rest eternally With Him that is the God of Sabaoth hight : O ! that great Sabaoth God, grant me that Sabaoths sight ! COMPLAINT OF THALIA (COMEDY).
Page 6 - 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 220 - Spiritus intus alit: totamque infusa per artus ' Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet ' Inde hominum pecudumque genus vitaeque volantum ' Et quae marmoreo fert monstra sub aequore pontus.
Page 75 - 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...
Page 281 - Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea Contagious fogs ; which falling in the land Have every pelting river made so proud, That they have overborne their continents...
Page 59 - THE parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of man's Understanding, which is the seat of learning : History to his Memory, Poesy to his Imagination, and Philosophy to his Reason.
Page 91 - Dens a principio usque ad fnem, the summary law of nature, we know not whether man's inquiry can attain unto it. But these three be the true stages of knowledge, and are to them that are depraved no better than the giants' hills : Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam, Scilicet, atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympum.