Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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Page 54
... greater part of the Twenty - sixth , entitled " Of Seeming Wise , " also published in 1612 : – --- It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem , and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are . But how- soever it be ...
... greater part of the Twenty - sixth , entitled " Of Seeming Wise , " also published in 1612 : – --- It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem , and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are . But how- soever it be ...
Page 68
... greater . For there example teacheth , company comforteth , emulation quickeneth , glory raiseth : so as in such places the force of custom is in its exal- tation . Certainly the great multiplication of virtues upon human nature ...
... greater . For there example teacheth , company comforteth , emulation quickeneth , glory raiseth : so as in such places the force of custom is in its exal- tation . Certainly the great multiplication of virtues upon human nature ...
Page 92
... greater show of foliage . You yourselves , he adds , as I apprehend , are scarcely aware over how wide a sphere the dominion of those studies of yours extends , nor to what a multiplicity and variety of matters they apply . The work is ...
... greater show of foliage . You yourselves , he adds , as I apprehend , are scarcely aware over how wide a sphere the dominion of those studies of yours extends , nor to what a multiplicity and variety of matters they apply . The work is ...
Page 103
... greater gods ; albeit they applied themselves to no other study , but from Pan ; that is , from the discreet observa- tion , and experience , and the universal knowledge of the things of this world ; whereby ( oftentimes even by chance ...
... greater gods ; albeit they applied themselves to no other study , but from Pan ; that is , from the discreet observa- tion , and experience , and the universal knowledge of the things of this world ; whereby ( oftentimes even by chance ...
Page 135
... greater dignity of mind to bear evils by fortitude and judgment , than by a kind of ab- senting and alienation of the mind from things present to things future , for that it is to hope . And therefore it was much lightness in the poets ...
... greater dignity of mind to bear evils by fortitude and judgment , than by a kind of ab- senting and alienation of the mind from things present to things future , for that it is to hope . And therefore it was much lightness in the poets ...
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